[request] log limited to just one filename

Jamie Wilkinson jaq at spacepants.org
Tue Jul 25 02:08:06 BST 2006


This one time, at band camp, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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>Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> Hey,
>> 
>> I've found a few times I want to look at the revision history for just one
>> file; i.e. I've noticed that a change happened and I want to find out when
>> and why.  So, in SVN I'd "svn log filename" and that would restrict the log
>> to just that file.
>> 
>> Is there a process already in bzr for limiting the revision set down to the
>> filename?
>> 
>> If not, consider this a feature request.
>> 
>> (Other places/tools that might help save the same problem: bzrk listing
>> changed files in the lower panel for each revision)
>> 
>> 
>
>You already can. It isn't 100% perfect. (Such that if there is a merge
>that modifies a file, it also prints out all the other versions that
>were merged in at the same time)
>
>Does 'bzr log filename' not work for you?

Wow, I must have misread the output when I tried this last night.  Sorry for
the noise ;-)




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