Searching Git History

.git-blame-ignore-revs

.git-blame-ignore-revs

# Removed semi-colons from the entire codebase
a8940f7fbddf7fad9d7d50014d4e8d46baf30592
# Converted all JavaScript to TypeScript
69d029cec8337c616552756310748c4a507bd75a

Git Log / blame

• View all commits that modified a file or a directory
• git log --follow <path_to_dir_or_file>
  • don't use git log -p, that shows the entire diff
• Get the SHA of the latest commit that changed a file
  • git --no-pager log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H -- <path_to_file_or_dir>

Git searching history

View how one file's changed across time

• git log --follow -p -- file
• Simpler version that doesn't follow: git log -p <filename>

Git search across branches

git grep "DialChart" `git show-ref --heads`

If that comes up empty

git grep "DialChart" $(git rev-list --all)

Git analytics

View the number of commits each person made

git shortlog -sen

git shortlog -sen COMMIT_HASH..HEAD

• s: summary
• n: sorted by number of commits
• e: email

Get a commit from a specific time

git log --after="2022-03-01 00:00" --before="2022-03-01 23:59"

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Last update: 2023-04-24