From: Vipul Kumar <kumar+git@onenetbeyond.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: List all commits of a specified file in oldest to newest order
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 04:10:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3932b3c-323a-39d6-26a7-ba0c3d17378b@onenetbeyond.org> (raw)
Hi,
I want to list all commits (including renames) of a specified file in
oldest to newest order. But when I run "git log --follow --reverse --
<path/to/the/file>" command, I'm getting a single commit, which points
to the "rename of the file". This behavior is weird to me because I
expected to get list of all commit in oldest to newest order, whereas
"git log --follow -- <path/to/the/file>" command works as expected.
### Steps to reproduce
$ git init test
$ cd test
$ echo "Hello from foo." > a.txt
$ git add a.txt
$ git commit -m 'Initial commit'
$ git mv a.txt b.txt
$ git commit -m 'Rename a.txt to b.txt'
$ git log --follow -- b.txt
commit 55e3e6857755fe815449e787a90fe82feb174817
Author: Redacted <Redacted>
Date: Fri Nov 5 06:56:58 2021 +0530
Rename a.txt to b.txt
commit f40baf5e777b2618e02805d16c950687d98356fe
Author: Redacted <Redacted>
Date: Fri Nov 5 06:53:35 2021 +0530
Initial commit
$ git log --follow --reverse -- b.txt
commit 55e3e6857755fe815449e787a90fe82feb174817
Author: Redacted <Redacted>
Date: Fri Nov 5 06:56:58 2021 +0530
Rename a.txt to b.txt
### Expected output
As far as I understand, using "--reverse" option along with "git log"
command reverse the chronological order of the commits. So expected
output of "git log --follow --reverse" command should be in oldest to
newest commits order that's reverse the chronological order of "git log
--follow" command's output.
$ git log --follow --reverse -- b.txt
commit f40baf5e777b2618e02805d16c950687d98356fe
Author: Redacted <Redacted>
Date: Fri Nov 5 06:53:35 2021 +0530
Initial commit
commit 55e3e6857755fe815449e787a90fe82feb174817
Author: Redacted <Redacted>
Date: Fri Nov 5 06:56:58 2021 +0530
Rename a.txt to b.txt
### Actual output
But when I use "--reverse" along with "--follow" option, I'm getting a
single commit which points to the rename of the file.
$ git log --follow --reverse -- b.txt
commit 55e3e6857755fe815449e787a90fe82feb174817
Author: Redacted <Redacted>
Date: Fri Nov 5 06:56:58 2021 +0530
Rename a.txt to b.txt
### Additional
$ git --version
git version 2.33.0
First I thought "--follow --reverse" showing to me the newest commit.
But later, I found out that, it always shows a single commit which
points to the rename of the file.
$ echo "Hello from bar." >> b.txt
$ git add b.txt
$ git commit -m 'Update b.txt'
$ git log --follow --reverse -- b.txt
commit 55e3e6857755fe815449e787a90fe82feb174817
Author: Redacted <Redacted>
Date: Fri Nov 5 06:56:58 2021 +0530
Rename a.txt to b.txt
Cheers,
Vipul
next reply other threads:[~2021-11-05 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-05 4:10 Vipul Kumar [this message]
2021-11-05 8:13 ` List all commits of a specified file in oldest to newest order Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-09 3:35 ` Vipul Kumar
2021-11-09 9:42 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-12-14 3:58 ` Vipul Kumar
2021-11-05 8:17 ` Jeff King
2021-11-05 18:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-05 23:26 ` Jeff King
2021-11-09 5:24 ` Vipul Kumar
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