How to find out by whom and in which commit a line was deleted?

Question

git

Such a question: I need to find out who deleted one line from a file.
That is, someone removed one line from the code, I use phpStrom and you can’t see in the annotations in which commit they did it. Are there any ways to find out?

Answer 1

if you know what was in this line, then
git log -S <string> path/to/file

Answer 2

git blame --reverse start_rev..end_rev /path/to/file

--reverse
Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in START.

Answer 3

There is also git bisect .
The meaning is this: you make a shell script with grep'om on the desired line, which returns 0 or 1, depending on the result of this grep'a. And then you run git bisect with this script (how - you will find in git bisect --help).