Git: Find last edits from a specific user in a specific file

Question

I have a project which sources are controlled with help of git.

Right now I want to find out when my teammate made last edits in a specific file. I want to find out SHA1 of commit or to see his edits as diff.

I guess I can use git log --stat <path/to/file> and review list of all commits where my file was changed.

Are there any quick ways to do it?

Poulter

Answer 1

you can use git log with a pathspec and --author option:

git log --author=your_teammate -- path/to/file

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Wow. I've forgot to review git help log. Thank you. git log --author=your_teammate -- path/to/file -n 1 does the work :) – Poulter

Answer 2

Yes! you can use git blame

git blame <file>

every line of that file will be shown who is the one edited the last.

Brehm

If you have a file is thousands of lines long, this is a horribly tedious way to figure out what the author wants – Wilford

Actually git blame will not help me if edits of my teammate where overwritten in later commits by another author. – Poulter

@Konstantin: it seems that your question is not asking what you describe in OP :p – Brehm

Answer 3

I would use this line
git log --format="%H--%ad-%an" fileName

If you only want the last change, use this
git log --format="%H--%ad-%an" -n 1 fileName

If you are looking for a single specific author, pipe it through grep
git log --format="%H--%ad-%an" fileName | grep "Author Name"

Wilford