logan
logan

Reputation: 8366

git command to get commit details for a specific file

I wanted to see list of commits and user who committed it for a file using git command.

Say i have a file in git path /home/git/xml/a.xml in master branch

Now, i wanted get list of commits and user who did the commit etc on above file.

Please let me know the command to get it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 93

Answers (1)

Anshul Goyal
Anshul Goyal

Reputation: 77053

You can use git log with the filename here:

git log xml/a.xml

assuming your project is in /home/git.

You can try something on the line of git log -n5 <filename>, to limit the numbers of commits shown.

Upvotes: 1

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