Re: how to display file history?

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> writes:
>
>>  
>>>	git whatchanged A
>>
>> thanks.  I've used this on entire repos before, but
>> for some reason didn't think of this command name
>> when looking for individual file history.
>
> Probably with recent enough git, one of
>
> 	git log --stat -- A
> 	git log -p -- A
> 	git log -p --full-diff -- A
>
> might be more pleasant, depending on what you are trying to look
> for.
>
> "A" can be a single file, more than one files, a directory,...

So that it has a chance of being remembered, and eventually fixed
the man pages of git-whatchanged and git-log only sort of tell you
that this is even possible.  git-whatchanged is certainly worse,
but I don't think if I didn't know to look for it I could see the
fact that these commands take path names from looking at their
man pages.

Eric