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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: scan entire repo for changes to file
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:44:34 -0600
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Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Neal Kreitzinger <neal@rsss.com> wrote:

>> Is there a way to scan my entire repo (many unmerged branches) for any
>> changes to a file?
>> e.g.
>> $ git log * -- somepath/myblob
>> would return all commits in the repo that changed myblob.
>
> Might replacing '*' by '--all' give you what are looking for?

Probably with --full-history if you want to know what happened on
historic branches, too.