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		cjbprime on Oct 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux 3.6 released Do you know about "git log -S symbol"? It will show the first commit that defined the symbol at the bottom of the output.

timsally on Oct 2, 2012 [–]

Thanks for the pointer. I know I'll find the commit using libgit2, but I hadn't yet gotten to thinking about the algorithm to do so. git log -S seems like a good starting point.

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