I'm looking for a tool that lets me perform a search through a complete Git repository (all branches). Ideally that tool would take some search pattern and would return a list of commit objects where that pattern appears (either in the file diffs or in the commit message [ I'm more interested in searching for the pattern in the commit messages than in the files]).

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For searching commit messages, use git log --grep <regex> [branches].

For searching commit diffs, use git log -G <regex> [branches].

To specify all existing local branches, use --all in place of the branch name.

If you want only a list of hashes, use --format=%H.

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