Show the history of a file with its diffs

Prints every commit that changed the file or directory, with the diff it introduced.

git log -p -- path

Edit the highlighted values, then copy. They are inserted as typed, without shell escaping.

Tool

git

Category

Git & CI

Tags

• history
• log

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