[git] How to view file history in Git?

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.

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

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"

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

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.

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).

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

git-diff or git-log ?

you could also use tig for a nice, ncurses-based git repository browser. To view history of a file:

tig path/to/file

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