How to search in commit messages using command line?

Question

Is there a way to search through commit headers using the command line?

Answer 1

There are two ways for searching the commit messages in the command line;

You could use:

git log --grep=<pattern>

Which limits the commit output to one with a log message that matches the specified pattern.

Or else you could use:

git log --oneline | grep PATTERN

 Both these ways are helpful in search of commit messages using the command line.