I wonder is there any way to see the history of a region in git, ie all the commits that touched some pieces of code (defined as several contiguous lines of code)? I think this is kind of cool.
I am using magit, so any suggestions on how to use magit to achieve this goal would be even better.
A first simple solution is git log -- file1 file2 dir1
: it will only show the commit which touched those files / directories.
Another approach would be using git gui blame <commit> file
Here each line of file will be annotated with the sha1 which introduced it, and you can click those sha1 to navigate among commits.
You probably want git-log -L
-L <start>,<end>:<file>, -L :<regex>:<file>
Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>" (or the
funcname regex <regex>) within the <file>. 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.
<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
o number
If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an absolute line number
(lines count from 1).
o /regex/
This form will use the first line matching the given POSIX regex. If
<start> is a regex, it will search from the end of the previous -L range,
if any, otherwise from the start of file. If <start> is "^/regex/", it
will search from the start of file. If <end> is a regex, it will search
starting at the line given by <start>.
o +offset or -offset
This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number of lines before or
after the line given by <start>.
If '`:<regex>'' is given in place of <start> and <end>, it denotes the range
from the first funcname line that matches <regex>, up to the next funcname
line. `:<regex>'' searches from the end of the previous `-L range, if any,
otherwise from the start of file. "^:<regex>" searches from the start of file.
For magit specifically, there's no current support, but there is an relevant open issue: https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/1717
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