git：无论分支如何，如何获取特定文件的最新提交？

Question

I have this big repository containing different modules, which should have been broken down in different repositories, one for each module. Sometimes I created a branch, say featbranch , in the repo to work on a specific module, but featbranch had no meaning at all for other modules. You can imagine the mess this could cause...

Anyway, my question is: how do I get the latest commit that changed a specific file, and possibly which branch such commit belongs to? By "latest", I just mean the one with highest timestamp, as I understand that commits from different branches would likely not have any precedence relation.

Answer 1

git log -n 1 --date-order --all -- <file>

（请注意，如果有人直接在较新的提交之上进行了“较早的”提交，则该提交可能不是带有最新时间戳的提交。但是，这仅可能是由于某人在撒谎的时间上是在撒谎。）