Re: git command history

[Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>]

On 3/22/2019 8:46 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Balaji,
> 
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, balaji marisetti wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone please tell me if there is way to see the command history
>> of a local git repo?
> 
> If you really are only interested in the *Git* commands, you will be able
> to implement something on top of the Trace2 feature (which just made it
> into `master` but not into any official Git version yet, so it will most
> likely be available when Git v2.22.0 comes out).
> 

Trace2 will let you see all of the git commands,
the alias expansions, and any shell commands launched
by git. If those shell commands also run git commands,
they will be listed too.

However, it can't tell you what was otherwise done within
the shell script.


> If you are instead interested in all shell commands in a local Git
> worktree (you probably meant the worktree, not the repository, I assume),
> then you might need to play some games with Bash aliases to override `cd`
> and reroute the history by re-setting `HISTFILE` and then calling `history
> -cr` or something similar.
> 
>> If there isn't a way, why hasn't the command-history feature been
>> implemented?
> 
> Because Git is an open source project. This means that nobody is
> responsible for fulfilling your wishes, except for you. And you can do it,
> too, this project welcomes all high-quality contributions.
> 
> Ciao,
> Johannes
>