如何查找本地Git工作目录中的文件删除时间？

Question

I was recently making some changes to a local Git repo, and I saw that a bunch of files had been deleted from the local repository. I hadn't committed these changes, so the files weren't actually deleted on the remote Git repo, but I'm still curious as to when these files were deleted on my local machine (as I don't recall deleting anything, and I would definitely never delete these files).

I basically just typed git status , and saw that a bunch of files in my local repo had been deleted:

modified:   .DS_Store
deleted:    _posts/2019-06-06-First-Post.markdown
deleted:    _posts/2019-06-07-Probduct-Update.markdown
deleted:    _posts/2019-06-28-Project-Update.markdown
deleted:    about.md
modified:   assets/.DS_Store
deleted:    assets/graph.png

I don't know how or why these files got deleted, that is what I'm interested in figuring out.

Answer 1

If you see something like this from git status ...

On branch gh-pages
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

    modified: .DS_Store
    deleted: _posts/2019-06-06-First-Post.markdown
    deleted: _posts/2019-06-07-Ignite-Labs-Probduct-Update:-Inferno-v0.0.1(b).markdown
    deleted: _posts/2019-06-28-Project-Update.markdown
    deleted: about.md
    modified: assets/.DS_Store
    deleted: assets/graphy_boi.png

That means they were deleted from your filesystem. Git has no record of that.

Things like the filenames and modification times are stored in the directory, the modification time of the directory will change whenever any files are changed, renamed, added, or deleted. ls -ld _posts/ assets/ will show you the last time this happened, though it won't necessarily be when those specific files were deleted.

It looks like you're using a CMS, so it likely happened when some CMS command was run. You can check your command history with history .