I wondered if any of you knew of a tool that would allow me to select a line in my code and then view a list view of the history of that line on a commit-by-commit basis.
Does anyone know of such a tool?
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Maybe annotations in IntelliJ IDEA is that you are looking for:
Showing and hiding annotations
- Open the desired file in the editor.
- To show annotations, right-click the left gutter, and select Annotate:
- To hide annotations, right-click the annotations gutter, and choose Close Annotations.
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Watch this video to learn more on how you can benefit from using annotations: youtu.be/R8QW8s4Ibio
Amit
Would it be useful if I want to see the history for my selection? It just shows the last commit detail on that line, but what if I want to see the entire history of that line of code ?
If you would like to view inline such information then you may add GitToolBox plugin. Live example on YT
Example view:
How to setup:
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BlueJapan
This is what author wanted!
Shubham kumar
will it be possible to open the linked PR on web as well ? This is possible on vscode so might be doable here.
NP Rooski Z
Not working in v2024.1 as of jun/8/2024
I know only the IntelliJ IDEA "Viewing Changes History for Selection" feature.
You could also try to use several git blame commands to iterate over history of a fragment.
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David.LPower
I use PHPStorm so I was able to use that 'show history for selection' Thank you for your help Kan.
Amit
Is this feature available only in license version of intellij? I am not able to see the detailed history for my selection.
git blame (docs)
git-blame shows what revision and author last modified each line of a file.
Usage examples
When you are interested in finding the origin for lines 40-50 for file foo, you can use the -L option like so (they mean the same thing — both ask for 11 lines starting at line 40):
git blame -L 40,50 foo.txt
git blame -L 40,+11 foo.txt
You can specify a revision for git blame to look back starting from (instead of the default of HEAD) if you want to find out who edited that lines before a specific commit (fe25b6d in this example; fe25b6d^ is the parent of fe25b6d):
git blame -L 40,+11 fe25b6d^ -- foo.txt
answered May 11, 2016 at 8:45
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git log (docs)
git-log shows commit logs.
Usage example
You can specify -L option to trace the evolution of the line range given by ",". You can specify this option more than once.
git log -L 40,50:foo.txt
answered May 11, 2016 at 8:59
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If you are using IntelliJ then, its annotation feature provides an option to do the annotation on previous revision. Using this option you can go back to the history of that line.
Find below screen-shot which shows, This option and its available in the community edition as well.
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In IntelliJ, you can use "Show History for Selection" in the "Git" submenu after selecting a line or multiple lines.
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As suggested in one of the comments in Can Git show history for selected lines?
git show $(git blame example.js -L 250,260 | awk '{print $1}')
more info: Every line of code is always documented.
