Exercise - Repository - Log

The log represents the history of the project as a sequence of commits. Each commit represents a state of all files in the project. Here you will practice examining and reading the log.

Tips

  • git log shows all commits that are in the current branch.
    • --oneline makes the output more compact.
    • --stat shows how many files were changed in which file.
  • git show <some-commit> shows details about a commit
  • With ~ you can address predecessors of a commit, e.g. HEAD~2 is the predecessor of the predecessor of HEAD.
  • git ls-tree -r <commit> lists all files that are versioned in the specified commit.
  • With blame you can find out in which commit lines were last edited.
    • -M detects moves within a file.
    • -w recognizes lines again, even if whitespace has been changed.
    • --show-number shows previous line numbers.
    • -C detects copies/moves from files in the same commit in which the line was edited, -C -C -C even from any file.

Setup

In the repo directory, a Git project is waiting to be examined.

Step 0 - START 

$ cd repo


Step 1 - Directory structure

Start in directory git-uebungen/aufgaben/repository-log/repo.

Examine the project directory. What files are there in the workspace? What directories? Where is the repository?

Step 2 - View commits

Start in directory git-uebungen/aufgaben/repository-log/repo.

Look at the commits. Pay attention to the displayed branches and tags.

Step 3 - Examine head commit

Start in directory git-uebungen/aufgaben/repository-log/repo.

Show details about the current version that is checked out in the workspace.

Step 4 - Examine past commits

Start in directory git-uebungen/aufgaben/repository-log/repo.

Show details for Release 1.0, and then for the predecessor version of Release 1.0

Step 5 - ⭐ Examine contents of past versions

Start in directory git-uebungen/aufgaben/repository-log/repo.

Show which files and directories existed in the previous commit.

Output the content of the file bar as it was in the previous commit.

Step 6 - ⭐ View commits: file statistics

Start in directory git-uebungen/aufgaben/repository-log/repo.

Look at the commits. Have the statistics displayed, i.e. how many lines were changed in which file.

Step 7 - ⭐ Determine origin of lines

Start in directory git-uebungen/aufgaben/repository-log/repo.

The goal is to determine the following for the file nachher:

  • For each line, show in which commit it was last edited.
  • Lines were moved within the file. Which ones?
  • Lines were also moved and copied from other files. Which ones?
repo $ cd ..


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