On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 01:44:36PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 11:12 AM, David Lang <david@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I'm needing to scan through git history looking for the file sizes (looking >> > for when a particular file shrunk drastically) >> > >> > I'm not seeing an option in git log or git whatchanged that gives me the >> > file size, am I overlooking something? >> >> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by size, but if you want to show >> how many lines were added and removed by a given commit for each file, >> you can use the "--stat" option to produce a diffstat. The "size" of >> the files in each commit isn't very meaningful to the commit itself, >> but a stat of how much was removed might be more accurate to what >> you're looking for. > > That's a good suggestion, and hopefully could help David answer his > original question. > > I took the request to mean "walk through history, and for each file that > a commit touches, show its size". Which is a bit harder to do, and I > think you need to script a little: David's mention of "a particular file", suggests to me that something "bad" happened to one file, and he wants to know in which commit that "badness" happened. If so, then it sounds like a job for git-bisect.
