How to find out in which commit a particular code was added?

Question

I want to find out in which commit did I add the code given below:

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Answer 1

Run git blame on the file. It'll show you the commit ID, the date and time, and who committed it- for each line. Then just copy out the commit identifier and you can use it in git log or git show .

For example, I've got a file, called test.txt, with lines added on different commits:

$ cat test.txt
First line.
Second line.

Running the git blame:

$ git blame test.txt
^410c3dd (Leigh 2013-11-09 12:00:00 1) First line.
2365eb7d (Leigh 2013-11-09 12:00:10 2) Second line.

The first bit is the commit ID, then name, then date, time, time zone, and finally the line number and line contents.