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Asked: 2026-06-03T10:35:30+00:00

git log –grep=searchstring appears to only search the first line of every commit message.

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git log --grep=searchstring appears to only search the first line of every commit message. How do I search the entire commit message?

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  1. Editorial Team

    What version of git are you using? With version 1.7.7.6, the --grep option appears to search through the entire content of commit messages. Take for example this log:

    $ git log
commit 7d3f6ed90467f40de32ea4e59f8fa4172735d577
Author: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@seas.harvard.edu>
Date:   Wed May 9 14:10:12 2012 -0400

    i added a file

    this is the second line.

commit 3aaf84486d0f1eb41fb5406254f795a581ef0ce2
Author: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@seas.harvard.edu>
Date:   Wed May 9 14:10:01 2012 -0400

    i made a change

commit eb6cd7773ff68808a9eda2e7edb8fbffcc1f6759
Author: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@seas.harvard.edu>
Date:   Wed May 9 14:09:45 2012 -0400

    this is the first line

    this is the second line

    If I grep for the word second, I get:

    $ git log --grep=second
commit 7d3f6ed90467f40de32ea4e59f8fa4172735d577
Author: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@seas.harvard.edu>
Date:   Wed May 9 14:10:12 2012 -0400

    i added a file

    this is the second line.

commit eb6cd7773ff68808a9eda2e7edb8fbffcc1f6759
Author: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@seas.harvard.edu>
Date:   Wed May 9 14:09:45 2012 -0400

    this is the first line

    this is the second line

    This is clearly matching something other than the first line.

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