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Asked: 2026-06-15T08:59:39+00:00

Is it possible somehow for GIT to find which commit introduced a specific line

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Is it possible somehow for GIT to find which commit introduced a specific line of code in a specific file? This is assuming that there have been many commits since that line was added. Or is this something that must be done in a script while looking at the git blame of all the commits for the file in which the line is present?

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Original file->Line Added to file and committed -> Many other commits adding other lines and changing the code

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use git blame -l filename to get the SHA1 hash from when the line was changed.

    You also can use –reverse:

    –reverse

    Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in START.

    See: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-blame.html

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