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i am currently porting git-server from nodegit to isomorphic-git (adobe/git-server#47). The port has been straight forward so far, kudos to the isomorphic team!

However, there’s one feature i can’t find in isomorphic-git: listing all commits which affected a particular file, i.e. the eqiuvalent of

git log -- path/to/file

Any pointers/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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wmhiltoncommented, Jan 8, 2019

Awesome! I’ve added it to the Snippets page. https://isomorphic-git.org/docs/en/snippets#git-log-path-to-file

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wmhiltoncommented, Jan 8, 2019

Hmmm that’s going to be a little tricky. I’m not sure how the canonical git does it (it may have some kind of optimized lookup table) but you could kind of brute force it with a combination of log and readObject…

OK, here’s something that kinda works. It doesn’t track files across renames (because that ability is still magic to me) but it finds all the commits where the SHA changed including when the file first appeared.

const git = require('.')
git.plugins.set('fs', require('fs'))

const dir = '.'

// PARAMS
const filepath = 'jest.config.js'

;(async () => {

  let commits = await git.log({dir: '.'})
  let lastSHA = null
  let lastCommit = null
  let commitsThatMatter = []
  for (let commit of commits) {
    try {
      let o = await git.readObject({ dir, oid: commit.oid, filepath })
      if (o.oid !== lastSHA) {
        if (lastSHA !== null) commitsThatMatter.push(lastCommit)
        lastSHA = o.oid
      }
    } catch (err) {
      // file no longer there
      commitsThatMatter.push(lastCommit)
      break;
    }
    lastCommit = commit
  }
  console.log(commitsThatMatter)

})()

I ran it on isomorphic-git and here’s the output:

> node test.js
[ { oid: '0d2331d49cedbcd0b5e9cf233895f691cb0b1810',
    message:
     'ci: expose GH_TOKEN to semantic-release script (#474)\n\n* expose GH_TOKEN to semantic-release script\n\n* chore: format code with prettier-standard\n',
    parent: [ '3931d60569f1a242bba0fce99b4f9cfb506a0e42' ],
    tree: 'e80591285dc42641e1ce4294cef8cbd96a77bf0e',
    author:
     { name: 'William Hilton',
       email: 'wmhilton@gmail.com',
       timestamp: 1537739485,
       timezoneOffset: 240 },
    committer:
     { name: 'GitHub',
       email: 'noreply@github.com',
       timestamp: 1537739485,
       timezoneOffset: 240 },
    gpgsig:
     '-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\n\nwsBcBAABCAAQBQJbqArdCRBK7hj4Ov3rIwAAdHIIAJQv7tNkmk7NSlRtCHT9azkU\ncAS21EhBH6AfJt4Z+OnEzFtfXiy9b1m3UjESP9GEiVnfQOX/crkiZxx3YcNagghT\ntpwdk9GS6eLn9YhHqXQBHT+3PECcv2jLV6PeeJBOwHYU0PDaWFkoobeUsy+XxFG8\npBW8poTIZSMuq+CAyS4/9HgRH/emCs5MZt7zLmeshwy7oDiPetiNRPHN5mrg767b\nl7ldoxzL/T1Jm1hEURS30xRt/YvR2VPLDWSqPdIigWkK/IU3LDydUC0MGttJW9Ik\nIENIyHbia4tFQC7ae50yJJflCvMRKEd1P77UytUOyH1MnD0nJ2qMf62GMo+byN4=\n=MS+u\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----\n' },
  { oid: '3931d60569f1a242bba0fce99b4f9cfb506a0e42',
    message: 'ci: switch from Travis to Azure Pipelines (#471)\n',
    parent: [ 'fb3771739e5dd5fca5cfbc8f316e54ec5060fdb5' ],
    tree: '4db7dffe4472713423df31e00e6e5775b2f67f46',
    author:
     { name: 'William Hilton',
       email: 'wmhilton@gmail.com',
       timestamp: 1537737565,
       timezoneOffset: 240 },
    committer:
     { name: 'GitHub',
       email: 'noreply@github.com',
       timestamp: 1537737565,
       timezoneOffset: 240 },
    gpgsig:
     '-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\n\nwsBcBAABCAAQBQJbqANdCRBK7hj4Ov3rIwAAdHIIAKsT5F4DTeTKDnomIITx6/rB\nCQq8syo5pyIeO4/r4852gJlex+wT78hsfb36/64pEfb5fYKjN2dC+gi83hxxMn3C\nnFrRYIWt4TvRPw63/qzTEdwSj8TUxRlAjOhX8CJOo6kj8GtZI8a/DeSSFlhEGOuC\nDujy/+0xRZ7cHYCWI+qvwDyc6/0WwyFxW71tPjFaHZqhJAcMYMFh3dyuJfND9Tzw\ncGIzFBN+K91zEqCxKoHs/yvkA9gxL7H9KX2qUHG8CpZA6vc4NFRVu+8HGe4jn51K\nLOn0rdiL4qclvTrsRpV5v5hKoI16RPcVN4X+1nAkvi9nobmirVTPerW3TzsZLak=\n=iTUf\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----\n' } ]

compared with:

> git log -- jest.config.js
commit 0d2331d49cedbcd0b5e9cf233895f691cb0b1810
Author: William Hilton <wmhilton@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Sep 23 17:51:25 2018 -0400

    ci: expose GH_TOKEN to semantic-release script (#474)

    * expose GH_TOKEN to semantic-release script

    * chore: format code with prettier-standard

commit 3931d60569f1a242bba0fce99b4f9cfb506a0e42
Author: William Hilton <wmhilton@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Sep 23 17:19:25 2018 -0400

    ci: switch from Travis to Azure Pipelines (#471)