So I'm learning about using Git stash this week and figured out all of these stashes have been accumulating on my system. I've misplaced some code and I now have a dozen stashes of code 0-11.
Is there a way that I can search through these stashes for a string value in the files within the stash to find the code I'm looking for? Or do I just have to go through and reapply each stash to search/look in them for the code I'm trying to find?
2021/03/18: I have found other information that sort of relates.
You can create a Git alias to search all your stashes. Modify your .gitconfig file and call git stash-search <pattern>.
[alias]
stash-search = "!f() { git show $(git stash list | cut -d\":\" -f 1) | grep \"$@\" ; }; f"
git stash show -p stash@{n} | grep "john cena" is the only option I think.
Of course you can write your own script around that.