Git - how do I view the change history of a method/function?

Question

So I found the question about how to view the change history of a file, but the change history of this particular file is huge and I\'m really only interested in the changes

Answer 1

Recent versions of git log learned a special form of the -L parameter:

-L ::

Trace the evolution of the line range given by "," (or the function name regex ) within the . You may not give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only give zero or one positive revision arguments. You can specify this option more than once.
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If “:” is given in place of and , it is a regular expression that denotes the range from the first funcname line that matches , up to the next funcname line. “:” searches from the end of the previous -L range, if any, otherwise from the start of file. “^:” searches from the start of file.

In other words: if you ask Git to git log -L :myfunction:path/to/myfile.c, it will now happily print the change history of that function.