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acosmism on Aug 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to search for a commit message in GitHub?

the simplest way is "git --no-pager" log | grep "the message you are looking for"

khc on Aug 7, 2015 [–]

or just git log --grep "the message you are looking for"? But that doesn't solve the problem of multiple repositories though.

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