Find out when the last use of variable was removed from the git repo

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I have an unused variable in my code, and I wonder how things got to be this way. Can I use git grep (or something else) to find out easily?

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git log -Svarname

where varname is the name your variable.

See https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#git-log--Sltstringgt:

Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of the specified string (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file.