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Git command to search history of a file for some text. This helps find when something was removed from a file.
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git-search-file-history
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Usage:
# To search for all occurrences in history of text "perform" in app/models/model.rb:
#
# git search-file-history perform app/models/model.rb
#
# TODO: A good future enhancement would be to show the commit right after the last occurrence, to see where it was removed.
#
text, filename = ARGV
puts `git grep #{text} $(git rev-list --all -- #{filename}) -- #{filename}`
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