git-history-graph

Use git merge-base –is-ancestor <commit1> <commit2> There is more than one way to find the answer to this. The simplest is to use git merge-base –is-ancestor <possible-ancestor-commit> <commit> From the documentation for git merge-base: –is-ancestor Check if the first <commit> is an ancestor of the second <commit>, and exit with status 0 if true, or … Read more

You can use git show with a path from the root of the repository (./ or ../ for relative pathing): $ git show REVISION:path/to/file Replace REVISION with your actual revision (could be a Git commit SHA, a tag name, a branch name, a relative commit name, or any other way of identifying a commit in … Read more