Show all files affected by a commit with git log when given only one file

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I would like to git log file and have it show the full commit details, including all files affected by that commit, like git log --stat=999,999 produces.

For example, git log --stat=999,999 path/to/file shows a diffstat of just that one file and if its associated commit had more files in it then it won't show them. I'd like it to show all files of the commit.

William Pursell · Accepted Answer · 2024-02-23 21:19:29Z

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You can get what I think you are looking for with:

git log --format=%H $filename | while read x; do git show --stat $x; done

or

git show --stat $(git rev-list HEAD -- $filename)

(These are variations on a theme.) If you have to deal with historical renames, you may want to use git log --follow.

edited Feb 23, 2024 at 21:19

answered Feb 23, 2024 at 20:02

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Shovas Over a year ago

Nice work. That second one was what I was hoping for.

Shovas Over a year ago

Too bad I can't git alias that but it works okay as a bash function: git-log-file () { git show --stat $(git rev-list HEAD -- "${@}") }

William Pursell Over a year ago

You can shell out in a git alias, so you could do !bash -c 'git show --stat $(git rev-list HEAD -- \"$@\")' _. (eg, either write that directly in a .gitconfig, or execute git config alias.lg '!bash -c '"'"'git show --stat $(git rev-list HEAD -- "$@")'"'"' _'

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