Re: git command history

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> On 3/22/2019 8:46 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Hi Balaji,
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> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, balaji marisetti wrote:
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> >> Can anyone please tell me if there is way to see the command history
> >> of a local git repo?
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> > If you really are only interested in the *Git* commands, you will be able
> > to implement something on top of the Trace2 feature (which just made it
> > into `master` but not into any official Git version yet, so it will most
> > likely be available when Git v2.22.0 comes out).
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> Trace2 will let you see all of the git commands,
> the alias expansions, and any shell commands launched
> by git. If those shell commands also run git commands,
> they will be listed too.
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> However, it can't tell you what was otherwise done within
> the shell script.
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> > If you are instead interested in all shell commands in a local Git
> > worktree (you probably meant the worktree, not the repository, I assume),
> > then you might need to play some games with Bash aliases to override `cd`
> > and reroute the history by re-setting `HISTFILE` and then calling `history
> > -cr` or something similar.
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> >> If there isn't a way, why hasn't the command-history feature been
> >> implemented?
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> > Because Git is an open source project. This means that nobody is
> > responsible for fulfilling your wishes, except for you. And you can do it,
> > too, this project welcomes all high-quality contributions.
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> > Ciao,
> > Johannes
> >