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Listing changed identifiers with git log/diff

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KKKonstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
Date
Jun 29, 2020, 10:18 UTC
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Git is able to recognise functions/variables changed, and even allows to see the history of such identifier with `-L` option.
But I couldn't find: how does one get a list of such identifiers in `git log` or `git diff`? This would be particularly useful for projects with odd requirements to have a list of identifiers changed in the commit message.
FTR, the diff text after the "@@…@@" does not cut it because for example if the diff is at the beginning of the function, then it would have a name of the previous function, i.e. not the one modified. As a hack, I tried passing an option `-U0`, but that didn't help, for one-line identifiers it still shows the name of the prev. identifier.
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