Update gitsecrets.md

stephenbradshaw · Feb 16, 2024 · de391fe · de391fe
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@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ Show the contents of a file from a particular commit
 
     git show [commit_id]:[filename]
 
-Search for file contents across all commits
+Search for file contents across all commits (add `--no-pager` after git to not pipe through less or similar)
 
-    git grep -n 'search pattern' $(git rev-list --all)
+    git grep --all -n 'search pattern' $(git rev-list --all)
 
 If the above is performed on a repository with too many commits to list in one command you can get a subset of the first 10000 lines like so