[GRLUG] Grep'ing a diff

[Dave Brondsema]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> I have a Hg repository.  Is there a reasonably easy way to grep-a-diff?
> That is: list every file whose diff (hg diff) contains the specified
> string?
> 

Convert repo to git, then run `git diff -Smystring`  Sorry that probably
doesn't help, but I was just looking at git diff and found it builtin there.

It's ugly, but I'd probably end up doing `hg diff > hg.diff && grep -n
mystring hg.diff` then manually look at those line numbers in the
hg.diff file.

I haven't used `hg grep` before, but it sounds like you could commit
your changes (to a branch) and then use it.


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