locate commit by file

Ittay Dror· Nov 4, 2008, 08:11 UTC · lore

Hi,

Given a file, is there an easy way (e.g., not bisectig) to find the latest commit where the file content is the same?

Meaning: I have a file /tmp/A and I want to file the latest commit where 
a/b/A is identical (content wise) to /tmp/A.

Thank you,

Ittay

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Jakub Narebski· Nov 4, 2008, 09:57 UTC · re: Ittay Dror · lore

Re: locate commit by file

Ittay Dror <ittay.dror@gmail.com> writes:

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> Given a file, is there an easy way (e.g., not bisecting) to find the
> latest commit where the file content is the same?
> 
> Meaning: I have a file /tmp/A and I want to file the latest commit
> where a/b/A is identical (content wise) to /tmp/A.

Do you mean: find the commit which changed file to current version? I think that

  $ git rev-parse -1 -- file

Would work (but better check "git log -- file").

If you want to find which version corresponds to given contents, you would have to find sha-1 of /tmp/A (using "git hash-object"), and find it in difftree searching for sha ("git log --raw -- file", or just "git log --raw" if you are not sure about name).

I think you can fins such script in mailing list archives...

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