See the History of a Method with git log -L

19 Nov, 2023

Simon posted an article from Caleb on a way to get the history of a method.

It works with Python out of the box:

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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.

Note that it doesn’t appear to work with a method in a class so just get the history of the class

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> git log -L :OpenWeather:get_weather/openweather.py

commit a5c823508c27be6e47f07e692c457908216fe48d (HEAD -> main, tag: 1.1.1, origin/main)
Author: Christopher Tyler <christophertyler@proton.me>
Date:   Sun Mar 26 20:23:29 2023 -0500

    Release 1.1.0 (#40)
    
    # Overview
    
    Minor release to update some of the development tooling and do some minor
    features.
    
    # Features
    
    * Added: Application name to PostgreSQL connection string.
    * Added: Update to use Python 3.11 features.
    * Added: Command line option to get the software version.
    * Added: Software version to save in database.
    * Changed: Switch to standard library tomllib.
    * Changed: Removed json config file.
    * Changed: Switch from poetry to flit and pip-chill.
    
    Co-authored-by: Christopher Tyler <christophertyler@engineer.com>
    Co-authored-by: Christopher Tyler <ctyler@dmimail.com>
    Reviewed-on: http://192.168.0.113:3000/Personal/get_weather/pulls/40

diff --git a/get_weather/openweather.py b/get_weather/openweather.py
--- /dev/null
+++ b/get_weather/openweather.py
@@ -0,0 +29,96 @@
+class OpenWeatherMap:
+    """To interface with OpenWeatherMap's API.
+
+    This class will make API calls to get JSON data from OpenWeatherMap.
+    """
+
+    latitude: float = 0

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