gitsearchdigest

Suppose you have the files FOO and BAR and a git repository, and you’d like to know the last appearance these files made in the repository.

Assuming FOO and BAR are under the current directory (which is not the git repository), the task can be accomplished like so:

printf "FOO\0BAR\0" | gitsearchdigest -C /path/to/gitrepo

This interface allows us to use it e.g. like this:

tar xvf mysterious-xyzlib-bundle.tar.xz
cd mysterious-bundle
find . -type f -print0 | gitsearchdigest -C /path/to/xyzlibrepo

to search for files in the xyzlib git repository from a mysterious xyzlib bundle.