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Sergey Novikov
Sergey Novikov

Reputation: 4196

Check changes in a specific file for a specific commit, Git

I want check changes in a specific file for a specific commit (by its SHA1).

I have a SHA1 of a git commit - 16a75e59, in this commit several files was changed. I want check changes in only one of them - /www/htdocs/doms/js/Test.js.

I know that this file was changed int this commit: If I run

git show 16a75e59 | grep Test.js

I got

echo Resolve::minify( file_get_contents( '/www/htdocs/doms/js Test.js' ) ); diff --git a/www/htdocs/doms/js/Test.js b/www/htdocs/doms/js/Test.js --- a/www/htdocs/doms/js/Test.js +++ b/www/htdocs/doms/js/Test.js

But when I trying

git show 16a75e59 www/htdocs/doms/js/Test.js

I got

fatal: ambiguous argument 'www/htdocs/doms/js/Test.js': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

Update: trying with -- and all works just fine. Seems first time I trying -- with leading slash.

So answer is: git show 16a75e59 -- www/htdocs/doms/js/Test.js

Upvotes: 0

Views: 384

Answers (2)

torek
torek

Reputation: 489688

If by "doesn't work" you got a message like this one:

$ git show d8b396e /t/t7509-commit.sh
fatal: ambiguous argument '/t/t7509-commit.sh': unknown
revision or path not in the working tree.

(note: I split the line myself to make it fit better, it's all one line in the original), then it's because /path/to/file.js contains a leading slash. Remove it:

$ git show d8b396e t/t7509-commit.sh
commit d8b396e17ecfe28b39b5f4470f791c434cce40ec
Author: Fabian Ruch ...
...
diff --git a/t/t7509-commit.sh b/t/t7509-commit.sh
index b61fd3c..9ac7940 100755
--- a/t/t7509-commit.sh
+++ b/t/t7509-commit.sh

(It helps if, in your original question, you show exactly the commands you use and the exact error messages. This often avoids needing to guess at the problem.)

Upvotes: 3

Sagar Sakre
Sagar Sakre

Reputation: 2426

May be you could try the git diff command

Check this

git diff SHA1^ SHA1 /path/to/file.js

Upvotes: 1

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