I'd like to check which files have been modified at the same time as one specific file. Specifically, I want to get the history of this specific file, and for each commit of this history I want to know which files were affected.
When I do git log --name-only, I get the full history of commits, as well as a list of files that have been modified, for each commit.
Now if I do git log <file>, I get the history of the commits that involved this specific file.
git log --name-only <file>, however, do not include the full list of files modified by each commits. Instead it only shows me <file>, which is quite useless to be honest.
Is there any way to make this command include all files?
You can pipeline the two commands.
$ git log --format="%h" <file-name> | xargs git show --name-only
Here:
git log --format="%h" : select the commit-sha where the given file is changed
xargs git show --name-only: takes the selected commits as args and show the full changed file names.