Question

I’m just starting out with Git and I’m looking for a way to get the number of revisions a file has undergone.

Right now I’m using the command:

git diff master~(arbitrary number) main.js

How do I know how high I can go with this number? I would also like to obtain the dates for each revision as well.. Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this

git log --pretty="format:%ai | %s" main.js

for the revisions along with dates. You can pipe this through wc -l for the number of revisions. For printing different bits of information, try

git help log

and check out the format: parameter to the --pretty option.