Re: How do I...

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 6, 2005, 16:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsm10cnx3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505060905090.2233@ppc970.osdl.org>

>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Frank Sorenson wrote:

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>> Okay, I've got some "How can I?" questions.  I hope I'm not the only one
>> still working to "git it".
>> 
>> How can I git a list of commits that have modified a particular file?
>> For example, I'd like to do something like this:
>> # git-file-revs Makefile
>> f7eb55878f11575281add2a5726e483aed5e45bb
>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>> bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

LT> Guys - whoever wrote one of the scripts, can you please send out your LT> current version to the git list and cc me, and explain why yours is LT> superior to the other peoples version. Please?

I think I mentioned and posted an interactive version called jit-trackdown. It is part of JIT found at [*1*]. You may have an older version that does not have the command.

LT> But I might cook something up myself too.

Yourself or not, I think it is a good idea to do something that does exactly Frank wants, namely, just list commits. Even better would be, to take commits with multiple parents into account, list of <commit> <parent> pairs, like:

    $ git-file-revs Makefile
    f7eb55....... aaaaaa.......
    f7eb55....... bbbbbb.......
    aaaaaa....... dddddd.......

which shows commit f7eb55... changed it relative to both of its parents aaaaaa... and bbbbbb...

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