To search for code deleted in the past with git, you can use git log -S search_word to search for commits containing the search word.

Use git log -S to search in the history for commits that changed . Add an optional -p to see the diff as well.

• [Quote]: oscardelben/git-diff-grep: Run grep across git diffs history

If you want to check the commit contents as well, use the -P option together.

git log -P -S search_word

git log -S is convenient when you occasionally want to investigate “When was that code deleted?”

That’s all from the Gemba.