{"id":26685,"date":"2016-09-12T17:39:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26685"},"modified":"2016-09-12T17:39:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:39:32","slug":"git-history-of-a-source-code-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/12\/git-history-of-a-source-code-line\/","title":{"rendered":"git: history of a source code line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

git<\/a> is one of those tools that no matter how much you know about it, there is an infinite supply of new things to learn. \u00a0Here’s a handy bit I’ve discovered recently, thanks to this StackOverflow comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Since Git 1.8.4<\/a>, git log<\/em> has -L<\/em> to view the evolution of a range of lines.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

And you want to know the history of what is now line 155.<\/p>\n

Then, use git log<\/em>. Here, -L 155,155:git-web–browse.sh<\/em> means “trace the evolution of lines 155 to 155 in the file named git-web–browse.sh<\/em>“.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Absolutely brilliant! \u00a0I used to suffer through this via an iteration of git blame<\/em> and git show<\/em> to the point of custom bash scripts.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

git is one of those tools that no matter how much you know about it, there is an infinite supply of new things to learn. \u00a0Here’s a handy bit I’ve discovered recently, thanks to this StackOverflow comment: Since Git 1.8.4, git log has -L to view the evolution of a range of lines. […] And … Continue reading git: history of a source code line<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"git: history of a source code line #git #WebDev #VersionControl #programming","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,18,133,62,1334],"tags":[1960,2265,1588,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-26685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-programming","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-command-line","tag-git","tag-version-control","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t