git-dive

Dive into a file's history to find root cause

Dual-licensed under MIT or Apache 2.0

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• Install
• Getting Started
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About

git-dive is for better understanding why a change was made. Frequently, we work on code bases we didn't start which have too little documentation. Even worse if the original authors are not around. git-blame is an invaluable tool for this but it requires a lot of ceremony to get the information you need.

Features

• Git-native experience
• Syntax highlighting
• Focuses on relative references (e.g. HEAD~10)
  • More room for code by merging the SHA and Time columns into a rev column
  • Easier to compare timestamps via the rev column (e.g. HEAD~10)
  • Easier to remember, avoiding the need for copy/pasting SHAs
• Focuses on "blaming" merge-commits (PRs) to more quickly see the whole context for a change
• Easy to find relevant config with git dive --dump-config -

Planned Features

• Interactive pager that let's you browse through time
• Reverse blame

git-dive was inspired by perforce time lapse view.

Install

Download a pre-built binary (installable via gh-install).

Or use rust to install:

$ cargo install git-dive

Uninstall

See the uninstall method for your installer.

Getting Started

FAQ