Show Only Commits That Touch Specific Lines
When you run git log
, you are listing all commits in reverse-chronological order for the current branch. There are ways of filtering the commits that get output from git-log
. As of Git 1.8.4, git-log
output can be filtered by commits that touch a range of line numbers.
This is done with the -L
flag.
For instance, if I want to see all commits that touched the 13th line of my README.md
file, then I can do this:
I can alter the command to show commits that touched a range of lines like so:
I used the -L
flag recently to find when a dependency was added to my package.json
file even though the most recent changes to that line were version bumps.
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