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Re:My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022) by steve1977 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @01:26AM (#39438560)
> My neighbor needs the name of the plumber we used. What was the amount of the bill? When did I order xyz last? What was the size of the wiper blades of my car?

But how do you look that information up in git?

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Re:My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022) by dewey on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @02:04AM (#39438708)
You can just search over all the diffs, that’s how I sometimes do it in Fork.app
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Re:My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022) by lrdd on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @04:43PM (#39447352)
The git "pickaxe" [0] is the canonical way of searching through changes. Probably `git log -Splumber` with narrowing down by date.

[0]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Searching

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