git > show file changes and history

abstract

The concern is documenting reading through the history of changes of a file using git.

1. use-case

• I repeatedly pull changes from repos and need to quickly check what has happened to config files
• My colleagues troubleshoot data pipelines and, learning from them, I need to see what they have done to the files in question

2. pull & log -p

• this is not git diff
• run git pull → fetch & merge potential merges
• run git log -p → see what has been changed

3. sources

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/22412252/11082684