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author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-05-19 08:37:25 +0400 |
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committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-05-19 09:00:55 +0400 |
commit | 187b0d80dfad2f51df580bffbbc1e7bc2103f6d4 (patch) | |
tree | cafe8af3d34b33661f15b193a83d8747006fb4d1 /Documentation | |
parent | 8fae22250fab25bc59efe24e849a7e9f20e3386c (diff) |
user-manual: finding commits referencing given file content
Another amusing git exploration example brought up in irc. (Credit to
aeruder for the complete solution.)
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 1ab3d4b87f..222171be30 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -921,6 +921,22 @@ echo "git diff --stat --summary -M v$last v$new > ../diffstat-$new" and then he just cut-and-pastes the output commands after verifying that they look OK. +Finding commits referencing a file with given content +----------------------------------------------------- + +Somebody hands you a copy of a file, and asks which commits modified a +file such that it contained the given content either before or after the +commit. You can find out with this: + +------------------------------------------------- +$ git log --raw -r --abbrev=40 --pretty=oneline -- filename | + grep -B 1 `git hash-object filename` +------------------------------------------------- + +Figuring out why this works is left as an exercise to the (advanced) +student. The gitlink:git-log[1], gitlink:git-diff-tree[1], and +gitlink:git-hash-object[1] man pages may prove helpful. + [[Developing-with-git]] Developing with git =================== |