How to view file history in Git

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With Subversion I could use TortoiseSVN to view the history log of a file   How can I do this with Git    Just looking for history record for a particular file  and then the ability to compare the different versions

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Looks like you want git diff and or git log  Also check out gitk  gitk path to file git diff path to file git log path to file

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I like to use gitk name of file  This shows a nice list of the changes that happened to a file at each commit  instead of showing the changes to all the files  Makes it easier to track down something that happened

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git-diff or git-log

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My favorite is git log -p  lt filename gt   which will give you a history of all the commits of the given file as well as the diffs for each commit

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Of course  if you want something as close to TortoiseSVN as possible  you could just use TortoiseGit

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TortoiseGit also provides a command line tool to do see the history of a file  Using PowerShell   C  Program  Files TortoiseGit bin TortoiseGitProc exe  command log  path  c  path to your file txt

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you could also use tig for a nice  ncurses-based git repository browser  To view history of a file   tig path to file

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Use git log to view the commit history  Each commit has an associated revision specifier that is a hash key  e g  14b8d0982044b0c49f7a855e396206ee65c0e787 and b410ad4619d296f9d37f0db3d0ff5b9066838b39   To view the difference between two different commits  use git diff with the first few characters of the revision specifiers of both commits  like so     diff between commits 14b8    and b410    git diff 14b8  b410   only include diff of specified files git diff 14b8  b410 path to file a path to file b   If you want to get an overview over all the differences that happened from commit to commit  use git log or git whatchanged with the patch option     include patch displays in the commit history git log -p git whatchanged -p   only get history of those commits that touch specified paths git log path a path b git whatchanged path c path d

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git log --all -- path to file should work

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Many Git history browsers  including git log  and  git log --graph    gitk  in Tcl Tk  part of Git   QGit  in Qt   tig  text mode interface to git  using ncurses   Giggle  in GTK    TortoiseGit and git-cheetah support path limiting  e g  gitk path to file

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