Looking for Things and using the History on Git: Examples and Reference
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List commits that changed a file
The last argument is the path to a file or a glob pattern (file paths with wildcards).
Example: list all commits that changed files whose name includes "some-file", in any directory.
$ git log --all --full-history -- *some-file*
List commits with commit message matching text
Example: list all commits whose commit message contains text "some text"
$ git log --grep="some text"
git log options
log is the main git subcommand to display commit history and other historical information.
git log -p
-p modifier: include diffs in the output of log