Gitup: browse a file's commit history

[RBornat]

I'd like to be able to browse a file's commit history. Information about commits is available via git log, but it's hard to find the commits in a very long list (mine is over 20 years long).

Or am I missing something obvious?

[swisspol]

No, there is no such feature today.

[mik01aj]

You can get close to it by using the search box. (Maybe just the search box needs improvement?)

[kpowick]

@mik01aj As far as I can tell, the git-up search box only searches commit messages. Which, unless you included the file name in all your comments, will be unlikely to retrieve the full commit history (git log) of an individual file.

I agree that this is a valuable feature that should be added to git-up. It's one of the only things keeping me from using git-up more often.

[mik01aj]

@kpowick it can:

[kpowick]

Hi @mik01aj

I guess we're looking for different things.

What I'm looking for is a way to see the complete commit history (git log) of a single, specific file (e.g. myprog.c). Other products such as _SmartGit_, _GitKraken_, and _SourceTree_ have such a feature. For _GitUp_, enabling _"Search commit diffs"_ does not provide similar functionality.

[mik01aj]

@kpowick I meant yes, it's not the same, but it does get close. For me it's practical enough.

For the precise case, yes, sometimes I need the full history of a specific file, and then I use IntelliJ integration. It can even show git history for some specific part of the file. It'd be cool to have it in GitUp too but it's not a deal-breaker for me.

[nathanpalmer]

Search by file would be huge. It's a big missing piece from moving over from Sourcetree for me.

Today I can search for a file

and then review the log for it

It would be great if you could Cmd+P / Cmd+T search for files like you do in many editors these days (Sublime, Atom, VSCode, etc.) and it'll popup a history for the file.

[Zakini]

Has anything happened relating to this?

[RBornat]

Nothing, so far as I can tell.

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[soleo]

I'd like to implement this as an enhancement for commit search. This is a feature I wanted. It should be similar to keyword searching, but using git log --follow filename as the result set.

[soleo]

I notice that there is an existing method - (NSArray*)lookupCommitsForFile:(NSString*)path followRenames:(BOOL)follow error:(NSError**)error; // git log {--follow} -p {file} in repo. Are there any reason that we don't use it for search, @swisspol?

[soleo]

@swisspol Could you take a look at this PR (https://github.com/git-up/GitUp/pull/425) when you have a chance?

[depressiveRobot]

Unfortunately, when using this feature GitUp crashes for me:

Process:               GitUp [47800]
Path:                  /Applications/GitUp.app/Contents/MacOS/GitUp
Identifier:            co.gitup.mac
Version:               1.1 (1031)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           GitUp [47800]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2019-09-10 16:08:47.181 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.14.6 (18G95)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     3.6 (16P6571)
Anonymous UUID:        0AA3B011-FB60-05CB-707A-7804690F9AC0

Sleep/Wake UUID:       3B902CE1-990A-4FC0-B2D9-A7097DE480DA

Time Awake Since Boot: 140000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       3100 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
Performing @selector(performSearch:) from sender NSSearchField 0x7f8cbb6161c0
Assertion failed: (commit), function git_commit_parent, file /Users/lucasderraugh/Developer/GitUp/GitUpKit/Third-Party/libgit2/src/commit.c, line 601.


Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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1   libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x00007fff6e426bf1 pthread_kill + 284
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3   libsystem_c.dylib               0x00007fff6e29e20d __assert_rtn + 324
4   co.gitup.kit                    0x00000001064b3dc9 git_commit_parent + 101
5   co.gitup.kit                    0x0000000106199ca8 -[GCRepository(GCHistory) lookupCommitsForFile:followRenames:error:] + 756
6   co.gitup.kit                    0x00000001061a29f5 -[GCLiveRepository(GCCommitDatabase) findCommitsMatching:] + 344
7   co.gitup.mac                    0x0000000105bbb79b 0x105ba6000 + 87963
8   com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff3fbc4644 -[NSApplication(NSResponder) sendAction:to:from:] + 312
9   com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff3fc2e992 -[NSControl sendAction:to:] + 86
10  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff4004908b -[NSSearchField sendAction:to:] + 71
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13  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff4004b051 -[NSSearchFieldCell(NSSearchFieldCell_Local) _sendPartialString] + 214
14  com.apple.Foundation            0x00007fff445887fb __NSFireTimer + 80
15  com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x00007fff422fb060 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 20
16  com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x00007fff422fac0c __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 851
17  com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x00007fff422fa752 __CFRunLoopDoTimers + 330
18  com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x00007fff422db962 __CFRunLoopRun + 2130
19  com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x00007fff422daebe CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 455
20  com.apple.HIToolbox             0x00007fff4153a1ab RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 292
21  com.apple.HIToolbox             0x00007fff41539ee5 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 603
22  com.apple.HIToolbox             0x00007fff41539c76 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 64
23  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff3f8d279d _DPSNextEvent + 1135
24  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff3f8d148b -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 1361
25  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff3f8cb5a8 -[NSApplication run] + 699
26  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff3f8baae8 NSApplicationMain + 777
27  libdyld.dylib                   0x00007fff6e2303d5 start + 1