Simon Willison’s Weblog

5th November 2023 - Link Blog

See the History of a Method with git log -L (via) Neat Git trick from Caleb Hearth that I hadn’t seen before, and it works for Python out of the box:

git log -L :path_with_format:__init__.py

That command displays a log (with diffs) of just the portion of commits that changed the path_with_format function in the __init__.py file.