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daydreamer
daydreamer

Reputation: 92149

How to get file history using git log since tag?

I looked at other answers on SO and identified that following command works, but does not honors the tag name in query

git log -p myReleaseTag ProductCatalog.java

This gives me all the changes in patch since the file was ever created.

How do I tell git to start from my tag myReleaseTag?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (1)

Mark Adelsberger
Mark Adelsberger

Reputation: 45809

As written, you're telling log to show all changes reachable from myReleaseTag (where "reachable from" means, more or less, "in the history of").

You could instead say

git log -p myReleaseTag..HEAD ProductCatalog.java

(or, slightly better practice:

git log -p myReleaseTag..HEAD -- ProductCatalog.java

as this will occasionally eliminate ambiguity in the command)

That would mean "all changes reachable from HEAD but not reachable from myReleaseTag". If you want to include the changes from the commit market by myReleaseTag, then you could say

git log -p myReleaseTag^..HEAD -- ProductCatalog.java

(though that's only 100% straightforward if myReleaseTag isn't marking a merge).

More generally, the argument that's controlling what to show is a revision range; there are several options for notation to specify such a range.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Revision-Selection

UPDATE - One more example

Another way to interpret what you asked would be if you want every change that isn't included in the release, regardless of what branch(es) can reach that change. Then you could use

git log -p --all ^myReleaseTag -- ProductCatalog.java

and a change will be shown as long as it isn't present as of the release tag, and is reachable from some ref (tag, branch, ...)

Upvotes: 1

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