How to get the last person who modified a file in Git?

Question

Can I find out who modified given file last?

Can I also find out a list of changesets which affected a given file?

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '14 at 16:09

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This command should give you all the commits that changed this file with the diff. You can also see who made this commit.

git log -p <filepath>

answered Sep 10 '14 at 16:09

usha

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '14 at 16:08

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git log -n 1 -- path/to/file.html

-n 1 makes it only load the lastest commit.

answered Sep 10 '14 at 16:08

Simon Farshid

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 03 '20 at 13:39

I had the same question but found that the previous answers do not limit the output to the person as the OP asked.

Following will show the author with his/her email.

git log -s -n1 --pretty='format:%an %ae%n' <filepath>

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