# locate commit by file 2 messages from 2008-11-04 to 2008-11-04. Participants: Ittay Dror, Jakub Narebski. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16164 ## Ittay Dror, 2008-11-04 08:11 Subject: locate commit by file Message-ID: <491003BC.7040206@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/491003BC.7040206%40gmail.com ``` 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 -- -- Ittay Dror ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-11-04 09:57 Subject: Re: locate commit by file Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m34p2ng6eq.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <491003BC.7040206@gmail.com> ``` Ittay Dror writes: > 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... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ```