Get Time of First Commit of a File
In git , to get the time of the first commit for every file in a directory, it is enough to run the following:
$ git log --format=format"%ci" --name-only --diff-filter=A
Which will produce something like this:
2020-10-03 15:06:25 +0200
content/Dispertech.md
content/things I've done.md
2020-10-01 14:57:15 +0200
static/14092.jpg
static/Aquiles.jpg
static/aquiles_square.jpg
static/deardisya.ttf
2020-10-01 12:21:03 +0200
content/digital garden tos.md
content/optimization.md
content/there is more to data than what meets the eye.md
content/what is a machine learning algorithm.md
content/why backlinks are the core of my digital garden.md
The date and time of the commit and the files that were added.
The important parts are:
--diff-filter=A
will only look at when files are added comparing one commit with the previous one. We can also use
D
to see deleted files,
M
for modified, or
R
for renamed.
The docs
explain all the rest of choices.
--name-only
will output the name of the files, while the
--format
decides how to output the information. Out of the box, we have these choices:
- oneline
- short
- medium
- full
- fuller
- reference
- raw
Or we can specify our own formatting, by making use of pretty formats . Some examples would be:
%ci
Commit date
%cn
Committer name
%s
Commit subject (the message)
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