I need to filter commits based on directory changes, for example I need to get a list of commits only if the commit made a change in a certain directory. I have tried the path filter glob option mentioned below. but this will include any commit that had a change in the specified directory even if any other file was changed as part of the commit. git log --pretty=format:'%H %s' -- \apps/web*/* I need to find a way so that only commits that specifically change files in those directories and no other changes are filtered out.

So since GitHub removed the insights tab for non-premium accounts, I'm trying to locally list insertions and deletions to my git repository per day. I figured out this way of printing what I want:

git log --pretty="@%ad" --date=short --shortstat |  tr "\n" " " | tr "@" "\n"

That produces this kind of output:

2024-06-13   7 files changed, 400 insertions(+), 406 deletions(-) 
2024-06-12   3 files changed, 145 insertions(+) 
2024-06-12   5 files changed, 638 deletions(-) 
2024-06-12   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Notice the plurals in file(s), insertion(s) and deletion(s). Another problem is that a commit might not have insertions or deletions (or both, but let's ignore this case). So I'm almost there, I just need to extract the date, insertions and deletions and group by date. That will produce some sort of "work done per day" graph. I made this regex to capture the fields dealing with all the optionals:

-regex
/^([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})\s{3}[0-9]+\sfile(s)?\schanged,\s(([0-9]+)\sinsertion(s)?\(\+\))?(,\s)?(([0-9]+)\sdeletion(s)?\(\-\))?\s$/gm

Now I need to get the 1st, 4th and 8th groups, for instance with sed:

echo "2024-06-13   7 files changed, 400 insertions(+), 406 deletions(-) " |
    sed -r 's/^([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})\s{3}[0-9]+\sfile(s)?\schanged,\s(([0-9]+)\sinsertion(s)?\(\+\))?(,\s)?(([0-9]+)\sdeletion(s)?\(\-\))?\s$/\1 \4 \8/gm'

That produces the correct output:

2024-06-13 400 406

But if the input string doesn't have insertions or deletions, sed just prints nothing for that captured group. Eg.:

2024-06-13 400

And I have no way to tell if the single number are insertions or deletions. **Is there anyway to extract the groups from each line, but print a "0" as placeholder if the group doesn't exist?** (not necessarily with sed alone, and not necessarily in a single command).

I have a (data) repository with ~50GB of data, split into =60 seconds. 1. Why is that, given that I just cd into the repository? git lfs filter-process converts between pointers and actual data -> when I cd into the repository I should not trigger converting since I did not do a git lfs pull or something? 2. Even if it needs to check some pointers and convert, what could cause this process to take >=60 seconds? The system's M2 NVMe SSD is fine (benchmarked reading/writing speed -> above 3GB/s).

I want to list all commit by using git log, in which each line contain [commit author]: commit date For example:

I am using git to version control config files on my system. I have git root at the root of my filesystem /, and I control /etc and /root. When I am in /root and do: git log .zshrc, it shows me commit history. I want to display the contents of .zshrc for particular commit: # git show a100e3515779a900509b52230d449a6446fa110b:.zshrc fatal: Path 'root/.zshrc' exists, but not '.zshrc'. Did you mean 'a100e3515779a900509b52230d449a6446fa110b:root/.zshrc' aka 'a100e3515779a900509b52230d449a6446fa110b:./.zshrc'? # git show a100e3515779a900509b52230d449a6446fa110b:/root/.zshrc fatal: Path '/root/.zshrc' exists on disk, but not in # git show a100e3515779a900509b52230d449a6446fa110b:root/.zshrc # git show a100e3515779a900509b52230d449a6446fa110b:./.zshrc only the last 2 commands works. Why do .zshrc and /root/.zshrc not work, and why do I have to use the least convenient notation such as ./.zshrc ? Is there some configuration option that I can change, so that git understands .zshrc and /root/.zshrc ?

I can format dates and time pretty flexibly with strftime, but from what I can see, this only will give times in my local timezone; I can add the timezone offset (e.g. '%Y %m %d-%H:%M:%S%z' for a particular time yields 2022 02 14 16:21:35-0800), but what I actually want is the datetime for UTC. (For that example, 2022 02 15 00:21:35.) Is this possible with strftime? (Context: I'm fiddling with git log --date=format trying to get a format which matches go.mod fake versions. The --date=format:'%foo%bar' option, for defining custom formats, delegates to system strftime. I'm on Mac OSX Monterey and using bash. EDIT: Solution was somewhat more complex due to being used in git; changed the question description to reflect that.)

I am trying to make a command for having a nice-looking git log. Say I have the following:

git log --color --pretty=format:"%C(cyan)" --abbrev-commit

What I would like to do is to make a variable that takes %an and decides what colour it will be based on the output string. So far, I have

USER=$(if [ ! %an = "my own user name" ]
    then
        echo "%C(cyan)"
    else
        echo %C(bold blue)
    fi)

So then I put the variable into the git log such that I have

git log --color --pretty=format:"$USER" --abbrev-commit

Which should make is so that if a commit has been done by *me*, it will print my username in cyan; else, it will print the collaborator's username in bold blue. However, it doesn't. I'm just wondering if someone knows what I'm doing wrong here? I suspect it is something to do with printing the variable into an environment that is already a string, but I don't know how to fix it. Any help is appreciated!

I have been browsing Git Basics - Viewing the Commit History as well as Git Tools - Searching and while most of the ways seem straight-forward I have been trying to figure out if there was a way to figure out the author who has done the most commits or/and the committers who has done most of the commits in a porject. I am sure there would be some ways like - 1. Find the author who has done the most commits in a project. 1. find the authors who have done the most commits in a descending manner. 1. Find committers who have done the most commits in a project and things like that. It could make for some interesting analysis of a project's state per se. Do people have any idea what could be done in the above instance? I am on Debian buster.

I have 2 different branches A,B that have a (slightly different) version of a file X. I am interested in getting the commits that added some specific patterns in branch B. What I do roughly: diff files| grep "^\+" | grep "$PATTERN" | for loop grep -n.. do git blame -L done This works but I was wondering if I am re-inventing/going a roundabout for something that is readily supported in git. Is there a better way?