Do you have a clean way to list all the files that ever existed in specified branch?
- "Ever exist"? Does it include the files that exist in a commit\version several months ago and they may be deleted at current commit\version?John– John2022-03-10 03:23:38 +00:00Commented Mar 10, 2022 at 3:23
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This is a simplified variation of Strager's solution:
git log --pretty=format: --name-status | cut -f2- | sort -u Edit: Thanks to Jakub for teaching me a bit more in the comments, this version has a shorter pipeline and gives git more opportunity to get things right.
git log --pretty=format: --name-only --diff-filter=A | sort -u 
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Jakub Narębski
@Dustlin: Add --diff-filter=A option (list only added files). Current version (without sed filtering only added files) would fail if you have enabled rename detection and have renames in history. I think you can then use --name-only instead of --name-status and remove 'cut -f2-' from pipeline.
Slipp D. Thompson
In one of my repos, I get quite a few duplicate lines (including a number of blank lines at the beginning of the output) with the second command that aren't dupes with the first.
Nitay
If you need a bit more info than the file name: $ git log --pretty=format:"%h %an [%cd]: %s" --name-only | cut -f2- | sort -u | grep Filename.ext
ThorSummoner
Note:
--all is something you will need if you have more than a single orphaned tip. Eg, multiple separate histories in one repo.
cmbuckley
--diff-filter=A ignores files that were created by copying an already existing file, so adding it may not always be what you want. |
This does the right thing for checking if a filename was ever present in the repo not just on the current branch.
git log --all --pretty=format: --name-only --diff-filter=A | sort - | grep fubar 
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Hannes
Shouldn't that be
sort -u ?Here is two useful alias: FindFile ff and FindFilewithCopies ffc:
# Find if one file ever had into repository ff = "!git log --pretty=format: --name-status --all -M -B | sort -u | grep $1 #" # The same as above but showing copied files ffc = "!git log --pretty=format: --name-status --all -C -M -B | sort -u | grep $1 #" You get information about file names and operations with them.
Sample use:
$ git ff create A database/migrations/2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table.php A database/migrations/2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table.php A database/migrations/2015_05_11_200932_create_boletin_table.php A database/migrations/2015_05_15_133500_create_usuarios_table.php D database/migrations/2015_05_12_000000_create_users_table.php M database/migrations/2015_05_11_200932_create_boletin_table.php R051 database/migrations/2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table.php database/migrations/2015_05_12_000000_create_users_table.php $ git ffc create A database/migrations/2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table.php A database/migrations/2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table.php A database/migrations/2015_05_11_200932_create_boletin_table.php A database/migrations/2015_05_15_133500_create_usuarios_table.php C052 database/migrations/2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table.php database/migrations/2015_05_11_210246_create_boletin_nosend_table.php D database/migrations/2015_05_12_000000_create_users_table.php M database/migrations/2015_05_11_200932_create_boletin_table.php R051 database/migrations/2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table.php database/migrations/2015_05_12_000000_create_users_table.php 
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You can run git-log --name-status, which echoes something like:
commit afdbbaf52ab24ef7ce1daaf75f3aaf18c4d2fee0 Author: Your Name <[email protected]> Date: Tue Aug 12 13:28:34 2008 -0700 Added test file. A test Then extract files added:
git-log --name-status | sed -ne 's/^A[^u]//p' | sort -u 