Re: Retrieving a file in git that was deleted and committed

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:50:57PM -0800, biswaranjan panda wrote:

Thanks Jeff and Bryan! However, I am curious that if there were a way
to tell git blame to skip a commit (the one which added the file again
and maybe the one which deleted it originally) while it walks back
through history, then it should just get back the
entire history right ?

Not easily. ;)

You can feed a set of revisions to git-blame with the "-S" option, but I
don't offhand know how it handles diffs (I think it would have to still
diff each commit against its parent, since history is non-linear, and a
list is inherently linear). You might want to experiment with that.

Other than that, you can play with git-replace to produce a fake
history, as if the deletion never happened. But note that will affect
all commands, not just one particular blame. It might be a neat way to
play with blame, but I doubt I'd leave the replacement in place in the
long term.

-Peff