How can I refer to a git commit by the text / words in its commit message headline?
I want to avoid:
git log
Reference the most recent commit that matches <text>
:
:/<text>, e.g. :/fix nasty bug
Reference the most recent commit reachable from <rev>
that matches <text>
<rev>^{/<text>}, e.g. HEAD^{/fix nasty bug}
man gitrevisions
says:
Reference the most recent commit reachable from <rev>
that matches <text>
:
<rev>^{/<text>}, e.g. HEAD^{/fix nasty bug}
A suffix ^ to a revision parameter, followed by a brace pair that
contains a text led by a slash, is the same as the :/fix nasty bug
syntax below except that it returns the youngest matching commit
which is reachable from the <rev> before ^.
Reference the most recent commit anywhere that matches <text>
:
:/<text>, e.g. :/fix nasty bug
A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text, names a commit
whose commit message matches the specified regular expression. This
name returns the youngest matching commit which is reachable from any
ref. The regular expression can match any part of the commit message.
To match messages starting with a string, one can use e.g. :/^foo.
The special sequence :/! is reserved for modifiers to what is
matched. :/!-foo performs a negative match, while :/!!foo matches a
literal ! character, followed by foo. Any other sequence beginning
with :/! is reserved for now. Depending on the given text, the
shell’s word splitting rules might require additional quoting.