git: get the list of files that have been modified along one specific file

Question

I'd like to check which files have been modified at the same time as one specific file. Specifically, I want to get the history of this specific file, and for each commit of this history I want to know which files were affected.

When I do git log --name-only, I get the full history of commits, as well as a list of files that have been modified, for each commit.

Now if I do git log <file>, I get the history of the commits that involved this specific file.

git log --name-only <file>, however, do not include the full list of files modified by each commits. Instead it only shows me <file>, which is quite useless to be honest. Is there any way to make this command include all files?

Answer 1

Use git-rev-list to list commits affecting specific path and then git-show to get all the files modified in each commit:

git show --name-only $(git rev-list HEAD -- PATH)