Search through git commit messages

Problem:

How do you find the commits associated with a specific story?

Context:

At Nulogy, we use a story tracking system that assigns a number to each story. When we’re developing, we tag each commit message with the story number:

$ git commit -m "#1234 - refactors spec"

Solution:

We can use git log --grep, which greps the commit messages in the repo:

$ git log --grep="#1234"
Written on March 8, 2016 by cameronwoloshyn