How can I search Git branches for a file or directory

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In Git  how could I search for a file or directory by path across a number of branches   I ve written something in a branch  but I don t remember which one   Now I need to find it   Clarification   I m looking for a file which I created on one of my branches   I d like to find it by path  and not by its contents  as I don t remember what the contents are

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A quite decent implementation of the find command for Git repositories can be found here    https   github com mirabilos git-find

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git ls-tree might help  To search across all existing branches   for branch in  git for-each-ref --format    refname   refs heads   do   echo  branch    git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   grep   lt foo gt   done   The advantage of this is that you can also search with regular expressions for the file name

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git log   git branch will find it for you     git log --all -- somefile  commit 55d2069a092e07c56a6b4d321509ba7620664c63 Author  Dustin Sallings  lt dustin spy net gt  Date    Tue Dec 16 14 16 22 2008 -0800      added somefile     git branch -a --contains 55d2069   otherbranch   Supports globbing  too     git log --all --     my file png    The single quotes are necessary  at least if using the Bash shell  so the shell passes the glob pattern to git unchanged  instead of expanding it  just like with Unix find

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git ls-tree might help  To search across all existing branches   for branch in  git for-each-ref --format    refname   refs heads   do   echo  branch    git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   grep   lt foo gt   done   The advantage of this is that you can also search with regular expressions for the file name

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git log   git branch will find it for you     git log --all -- somefile  commit 55d2069a092e07c56a6b4d321509ba7620664c63 Author  Dustin Sallings  lt dustin spy net gt  Date    Tue Dec 16 14 16 22 2008 -0800      added somefile     git branch -a --contains 55d2069   otherbranch   Supports globbing  too     git log --all --     my file png    The single quotes are necessary  at least if using the Bash shell  so the shell passes the glob pattern to git unchanged  instead of expanding it  just like with Unix find

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A quite decent implementation of the find command for Git repositories can be found here    https   github com mirabilos git-find

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git ls-tree might help  To search across all existing branches   for branch in  git for-each-ref --format    refname   refs heads   do   echo  branch    git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   grep   lt foo gt   done   The advantage of this is that you can also search with regular expressions for the file name

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Copy  amp  paste this to use git find-file SEARCHPATTERN  Printing all searched branches   git config --global alias find-file   for branch in  git for-each-ref --format    refname   refs heads   do echo    branch     git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   nl -bn -w3   grep   1   done       Print only branches with results   git config --global alias find-file   for branch in   git for-each-ref --format    refname   refs heads   do if git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   grep   1   gt   dev null  then  echo    branch     git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   nl -bn -w3   grep   1   fi  done       These commands will add some minimal shell scripts directly to your    gitconfig as global git alias

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You could use gitk --all and search for commits  touching paths  and the pathname you are interested in

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You could use gitk --all and search for commits  touching paths  and the pathname you are interested in

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git ls-tree might help  To search across all existing branches   for branch in  git for-each-ref --format    refname   refs heads   do   echo  branch    git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   grep   lt foo gt   done   The advantage of this is that you can also search with regular expressions for the file name

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You could use gitk --all and search for commits  touching paths  and the pathname you are interested in

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Copy  amp  paste this to use git find-file SEARCHPATTERN  Printing all searched branches   git config --global alias find-file   for branch in  git for-each-ref --format    refname   refs heads   do echo    branch     git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   nl -bn -w3   grep   1   done       Print only branches with results   git config --global alias find-file   for branch in   git for-each-ref --format    refname   refs heads   do if git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   grep   1   gt   dev null  then  echo    branch     git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   nl -bn -w3   grep   1   fi  done       These commands will add some minimal shell scripts directly to your    gitconfig as global git alias

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git log   git branch will find it for you     git log --all -- somefile  commit 55d2069a092e07c56a6b4d321509ba7620664c63 Author  Dustin Sallings  lt dustin spy net gt  Date    Tue Dec 16 14 16 22 2008 -0800      added somefile     git branch -a --contains 55d2069   otherbranch   Supports globbing  too     git log --all --     my file png    The single quotes are necessary  at least if using the Bash shell  so the shell passes the glob pattern to git unchanged  instead of expanding it  just like with Unix find

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You could use gitk --all and search for commits  touching paths  and the pathname you are interested in

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Although ididak s response is pretty cool  and Handyman5 provides a script to use it  I found it a little restricted to use that approach   Sometimes you need to search for something that can appear disappear over time  so why not search against all commits  Besides that  sometimes you need a verbose response  and other times only commit matches  Here are two versions of those options  Put these scripts on your path   git-find-file  for branch in   git rev-list --all  do   if  git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   grep --quiet   1     then      echo  branch   fi done   git-find-file-verbose  for branch in   git rev-list --all  do   git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   grep   1    sed  s     branch      done   Now you can do    git find-file  lt regex gt  sha1 sha2    git find-file-verbose  lt regex gt  sha1  path to  lt regex gt  searched sha1  path to another  lt regex gt  in same sha sha2  path to other  lt regex gt  in other sha   See that using getopt you can modify that script to alternate searching all commits  refs  refs heads  been verbose  etc     git find-file  lt regex gt    git find-file --verbose  lt regex gt    git find-file --verbose --decorated --color  lt regex gt    Checkout https   github com albfan git-find-file for a possible implementation

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git log   git branch will find it for you     git log --all -- somefile  commit 55d2069a092e07c56a6b4d321509ba7620664c63 Author  Dustin Sallings  lt dustin spy net gt  Date    Tue Dec 16 14 16 22 2008 -0800      added somefile     git branch -a --contains 55d2069   otherbranch   Supports globbing  too     git log --all --     my file png    The single quotes are necessary  at least if using the Bash shell  so the shell passes the glob pattern to git unchanged  instead of expanding it  just like with Unix find

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Although ididak s response is pretty cool  and Handyman5 provides a script to use it  I found it a little restricted to use that approach   Sometimes you need to search for something that can appear disappear over time  so why not search against all commits  Besides that  sometimes you need a verbose response  and other times only commit matches  Here are two versions of those options  Put these scripts on your path   git-find-file  for branch in   git rev-list --all  do   if  git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   grep --quiet   1     then      echo  branch   fi done   git-find-file-verbose  for branch in   git rev-list --all  do   git ls-tree -r --name-only  branch   grep   1    sed  s     branch      done   Now you can do    git find-file  lt regex gt  sha1 sha2    git find-file-verbose  lt regex gt  sha1  path to  lt regex gt  searched sha1  path to another  lt regex gt  in same sha sha2  path to other  lt regex gt  in other sha   See that using getopt you can modify that script to alternate searching all commits  refs  refs heads  been verbose  etc     git find-file  lt regex gt    git find-file --verbose  lt regex gt    git find-file --verbose --decorated --color  lt regex gt    Checkout https   github com albfan git-find-file for a possible implementation

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