On Monday, 29 November 2021 16:03:25 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 5:39 AM tastytea <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you want the history for a file, you need to specify the full path: > > > > git log sys-devel/gcc/gcc-11.2.1_p20211127.ebuild > > You can also point it at a directory and get changes for the entire > directory. I also suggest trying "git whatchanged" as an alternative > to "git log."
I didn't know about whatchanged. I tried it like this and got 120k lines of output: # (cd /var/db/repos/gentoo/sys-devel/gcc && git whatchanged) I've always found git counter-intuitive and I've resisted trying to understand it, so far. Maybe I should make a little more effort. > I'm guessing you could get git log to display the same > info but I find whatchanged to be more useful, at least for > directories. There wouldn't be much point in running it on a single > file since the main benefit is showing what files changed in each > commit. > > Keep in mind that git knows nothing about gentoo package atoms/syntax. > It just sees a directory tree and files... Yes, I did know that. -- Regards, Peter.
