Line history viewer - Git

Question

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?

Answer 1

Maybe annotations in IntelliJ IDEA is that you are looking for:

Showing and hiding annotations

1. Open the desired file in the editor.
2. To show annotations, right-click the left gutter, and select Annotate:
   
3. To hide annotations, right-click the annotations gutter, and choose Close Annotations.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

If you would like to view inline such information then you may add GitToolBox plugin. Live example on YT

Example view:

How to setup:

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

In IntelliJ, you can use show history for selection in the git submenu after selecting a line/ multiple lines.