Show history of commits for a line or section in a file

Question

I'm looking to step through the history of commits for a section in a file. Particularly, there are two lines I'm interested in. I want to see what changes were made to these two lines going back to a few months ago, or even the origin of the file. Is there a quick way to get the changes using the command line? I know there are GUI's for git that allow you to do this, but I'd prefer not to. I'd rather use vim or sublime if I'm going to do that.

Ideally I want something like the commit hash, date, name, and change.

34hi5u3k 4/13/2013 Someone Name (Line 408)  $text = 'Something';
72wbedfj 4/05/2013 Someone Else (Line 408)  $text = 'Something else';
827y3hrj 3/29/2013 Someone Nice (Line 408)  $text = 'This one time...';

Answer 1

Show all changes to lines 95-105 in $filename:

git log -L 95,105:$filename

Show all changes to 10 lines starting at regex in $filename:

git log -L /<regex>/,+10:$filename

The output produced is not in the ideal format you mentioned, but it does show all diffs for the specified section for the entire history.