Retrieving logs matching pattern for all time.

I have a glob pattern of files, and I'd like to get git logs for every
commit that touched those files. 'git log filesmatchingglob*' is
pretty close.

Unfortunately, because the * is interpreted by bash, it doesn't catch
logs for files that don't exist anymore.

Protecting the * from bash was my next thought, but that doesn't seem to help:

user@host:~$ mkdir something
user@host:~$ cd something
user@host:~/something$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/nickuj/something/.git/
user@host:~/something$ echo hello > hello.txt
user@host:~/something$ git add hello.txt
user@host:~/something$ git commit -m hello hello.txt
[master (root-commit) ca4b223] hello
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 hello.txt
user@host:~/something$ git log -- 'hel*'
user@host:~/something$

IE, git doesn't seem to interpret globs itself in patterns.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/543346/git-list-all-the-files-that-ever-existed
suggests a means to get a list of all files that ever existed, and I
could certainly iterate across that, find the files that match the
pattern, and then run git-log against that.... but it seems like a
problem somebody's already solved more elegantly.

Any thoughts?

-- 
Jeremy Nickurak

Jeremy Nickurak wrote:

quoted

user@host:~/something$ git log -- 'hel*'
user@host:~/something$

IE, git doesn't seem to interpret globs itself in patterns.

It does for me:

thomas@thomas:~/g(next u+59)$ g log --oneline --name-status -- "REA*"
f73b3af README: git lives at http://git-scm.com these days
M       README

etc.

Which git version are you using?

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch