View the change history of a file using Git versioning

Question

How can I view the change history of an individual file in Git, complete details with what has changed?

I have got as far as:

git log -- [filename]
         


        

Answer 1

You can also try this which lists the commits that has changed a specific part of a file (Implemented in Git 1.8.4).

Result returned would be the list of commits that modified this particular part. Command :

git log --pretty=short -u -L ,:

where upperLimit is the start_line_number and lowerLimit is the ending_line_number of the file.

More details at https://www.techpurohit.com/list-some-useful-git-commands