From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:48:39 GMT
Subject: Re: scan entire repo for changes to file
Message-ID: <7vk4kdi2h4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101112014434.GA10679@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Neal Kreitzinger <neal@rsss.com> wrote:
>
>>> Is there a way to scan my entire repo (many unmerged branches) for any
>>> changes to a file?
>>> e.g.
>>> $ git log * -- somepath/myblob
>>> would return all commits in the repo that changed myblob.
>>
>> Might replacing '*' by '--all' give you what are looking for?
>
> Probably with --full-history if you want to know what happened on
> historic branches, too.

You would need to clarify what you mean by "historic branches" here.