how to search entire repositories

fetch the latest commits from ALL branches

Before you search, you may want to pull all the latest data.

    git fetch --all

If that isn't working for you, then try this suggestion.

To verify this worked: If you're using Gitlab on the server, it shows you the commit count. You can get your local repo commit count by doing this:

    git rev-list --count --all

list most recent commits, across ALL branches

    git log --all

search for file names

This searches all filenames that occur in any commit:

    git rev-list --all | while read rev; do git ls-tree --full-tree -r --name-only "$rev" | grep '.*HelloWorld\.pm$' | sed 's/^/'"$rev"'\t/'; done

(this can easily take 30 seconds or more)

Lines further up indicate newer commits than lines further down.

search through file contents

<TODO>