git -> show list of files changed in recent commits in a specific directory

Question

In Subversion svn log is the command to display commit log messages -- for details see the online manual at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svn.c.log

Answer 1

To show all the commit of your branch(recent and old), you need to count the number of commits in the branch

git rev-list --count branch_name

Once you get all the commit count, you can run

git log --name-status -countNumber /path