If you know the contents of the line, this is an ideal use case for:
git log -S <string> path/to/file
which shows you commits which introduce or remove an instance of that string. There’s also the -G<regex>
which does the same thing with regular expressions! See man git-log
and search for the -G
and -S
options, or pickaxe (the friendly name for these features) for more information.
The -S
option is actually mentioned in the header of the git-blame
manpage too, in the description section, where it gives an example using git log -S...
.