Show All Commits For A File Beyond Renaming
By including -- <filename> with a git log command, we can list all the commits for a file. The following is an example of such a command with some formatting and file names.
What we may not realize, though, is that we are missing out on a commit in this file's history. At one point, this file was renamed. The command above wasn't able to capture that.
Using the --follow flag with a file name, we can list all commits for a file beyond renaming.
This command roped in a commit from when README.md used to be called README.rdoc. If you want to know about the full history of a file, this is the way to go.
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