https://github.com/ararslan/git-file-history

Get the full, patchable commit history for a single file
https://github.com/ararslan/git-file-history

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Get the full, patchable commit history for a single file

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ararslan/git-file-history
• Owner: ararslan
• License: bsd-2-clause
• Created: 2016-12-20T06:47:39.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-02-01T22:38:17.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-16T16:40:54.106Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: git, git-addons
• Language: Shell
• Size: 2.93 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# git file-history

This script provides a Git subcommand to retrieve commit history for a particular file

in a repository.

This is particularly useful for preserving the commit history of a file when moving it

to another repository.

To generate a patch file, pipe the output to a .patch file.

Otherwise the output is displayed using Git's default pager.

## Installation

Put the `git-file-history` file anywhere in your path.

That's it!

## Example

Say you have a repository of recipes and you want to move the section for greens to its

own separate repository, while preserving full authorship information.

```bash

cd ~/recipes

git file-history greens/salad.txt > ~/salad.patch

mkdir ~/leafy-recipes && cd ~/leafy-recipes

git init

git am --committer-date-is-author-date < ~/salad.patch

```