How to print all TODO comments I ever added or edited during any git commit

Question

How can I list all TODO comments I ever added or edited within all commits of a git versioned project? I do not want to see everyone else's TODO comments.

The output should print all lines actually containing my TODO comments:

\\TODO: This should be changed to something else
\\TODO I guess the bug hides here
\\ TODO I need to do something here

I do not want to just list the commits themselves as git log -S TODO does.

Answer 1

If that TODO is in files (as opposed to the commit message), you can do:

git log -p --author=you -S TODO | grep "\+.*TODO"

See more at "How to grep (search) committed code in the git history?".
-p: to see the content as a patch, which allows to grep on the line including the TODO.

However, this lists all TODO comments ever written, even those that already resolved and thus removed again from code.

For a more complete answer, see "How to list all my TODO messages in the current git managed code base":

git grep -l TODO | xargs -n1 git blame -f -n -w | grep "Your name" | grep TODO | sed "s/.\{9\}//" | sed "s/(.*)[[:space:]]*//"