@b0rk my mistake, he also covers bisect, normal rebase,...

@b0rk my mistake, he also covers bisect, normal rebase, and amending commits https://speakerdeck.com/tswicegood/gits-meat-cleavers

... and a quick google search shows I'm completely wrong 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apologies. It's a way to search the commit log for when a specific term was added/removed/modified http://www.philandstuff.com/2014/02/09/git-pickaxe.html

Like 2 Nov 2023 at 14:14 | Wall-to-wall | Open on phpc.social

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Julia Evans

@brianfenton oh it's `git log -S`? I love that flag, no idea it was called a pickaxe (???)

2 Nov 2023 at 14:18 | Open on social.jvns.ca

Brian Fenton

@b0rk apparently? no idea how that came to be, but I think it's one of those plumbing (non-porcelain) that escaped into the wild https://git-scm.com/docs/gitdiffcore#_diffcore_pickaxe_for_detecting_additiondeletion_of_specified_string

2 Nov 2023 at 14:25 | Open on phpc.social

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