Git to show last changes of a file

Question

I googled about this and a lot of articles showing how to see changes in either last few days or last commits.

What I really want is to see the last change to a file regardless when and which commit.

Lets say, I have FileA and FileB

commit 1: changed FileA and FileB

commit 2~99: changed FileB

What I want to see is what was the last change to FileA without knowing which commit affected FileA.

This is particularly useful (at least for me) when I git pull a shared project, I see a big list of files changed by a number of commits, I am interested what changes have been made to some of the files, but it's kind of hard to do.

Answer 1

I would simply try

git log -1 -p -- path/to/your/file

Like git help says:

  -<n>
       Limits the number of commits to show. Note that this is a commit
       limiting option.

  [--] <path>...
      Show only commits that are enough to explain how the files that
      match the specified paths came to be. See "History Simplification"
      below for details and other simplification modes.