Question

How do I, using git, list all files in a particular directory together with the owner/identity of those files at first commit?

Is getting slices of information like this across many files usually difficult?

Edit: Okay, git doesn’t provide a direct way to do this, but it does store who commits various files, right? I need this list in a particular directory so I can get a sense of which files I’m ‘responsible’ for.

Answer 1

Give this a try:

$ cd thatdirectory
$ git ls-files |
  while read fname; do
    echo "`git log --reverse --format="%cn" "$fname" | head -1` first added $fname"
  done

The "first added" can be misleading in case of renames.

Refs:

• https://git-scm.com/docs/git-ls-files
• https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#_pretty_formats (see placeholders under format:<string>)