Finding Content in Files with Git - Christopher Bennage

Finding Content in Files with Git - Christopher Bennage

Acknowledgment: This is meant to be the Windows equivalent of Anders Janmyr's excellent post on the subject of finding stuff with Git. Essentially, I'm translating some of Anders' examples to Powershell and providing explanations for things that many Windows devs might not be familiar with.

This is the second in a series of posts providing a set of recipes for locating sundry and diverse thingies in a Git repository.

Finding content in files

Let's say that there are hidden monkeys inside your files and you need to find. You can search the content of files in a Git repositor by using git grep. (For all you Windows devs, grep is a kind of magical pony from Unixland whose special talent is finding things.)

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