For a graphical view I'd use gitk
:
gitk [filename]
Or to follow filename past renames:
gitk --follow [filename]
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For a graphical view I'd use gitk
:
gitk [filename]
Or to follow filename past renames:
gitk --follow [filename]
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You can use
git log -p filename
to let Git generate the patches for each log entry.
See
git help log
for more options - it can actually do a lot of nice things :) To get just the diff for a specific commit you can
git show HEAD
or any other revision by identifier. Or use
gitk
to browse the changes visually.
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git log --follow -p -- path-to-file
This will show the entire history of the file (including history beyond renames and with diffs for each change).
In other words, if the file named bar
was once named foo
, then git log -p bar
(without the --follow
option) will only show the file's history up to the point where it was renamed -- it won't show the file's history when it was known as foo
. Using git log --follow -p bar
will show the file's entire history, including any changes to the file when it was known as foo
. The -p
option ensures that diffs are included for each change.
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git whatchanged -p filename
is also equivalent to git log -p filename
in this case.
You can also see when a specific line of code inside a file was changed with git blame filename
. This will print out a short commit id, the author, timestamp, and complete line of code for every line in the file. This is very useful after you've found a bug and you want to know when it was introduced (or who's fault it was).