View log/history of a file

[jarod]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As what gitk <filename> do. You can view commit logs of the file specified. Then select one of the logs to view changes made to the file in that commit.

Describe the solution you'd like
not serious thoughts:

• on launch: gitui <filename>
• on any file list view add a [file log] command which go to log tab view logs filtered by the selected file

any file list view above include but not limit to:

• tab [Status] -> Unstaged Changes and Staged Changes window
• tab [Log] -> Files window when view a commit log
• tab [Stashing]
• tab [Stashes]

Additional context
gitk Cargo.toml on ripgrep repo:

[extrawurst]

file history is a feature I definitely want to support down the line!

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[tpo]

I'd like to add that it'd be nice if gitui had a file browser view/tab which would tell me which files/dirs are committed, staged, dirty (there's a diff), (... have merge conflicts), where I can press a key and see the diff, the history, blame, etc.

Ah, it's not hard to be wanting things ... :-)

Thanks for gitui!

[extrawurst]

@tpo I am not sure how the current Status-tab is not providing you a way to see what is staged or dirty? the rest is not covered yet, that's true.

[tpo]

Hi @extrawurst

I am not sure how the current Status-tab is not providing you a way to see what is staged or dirty?

Yes it is. However what I am missing is a view that is first and foremost file based. Not based in the first place on whether something is dirty or staged.

That said - this is my first impression: my first reaction when starting gitui was "uuuhm, where are my files?" and I instantly started searching whether there's a tab or keystroke that would bring the respective view up.

[extrawurst]

@tpo I agree such a tab would have some use, but considering my most used git GUIs none of them focuses on such a view as a primary one. almost all (lazygit, tig, fork) focus on either uncommitte changes or revlog. dunno about tig/lazygit but in fork a file-tree is only accessible via a specific commit.

long story short, such a file tree has no super high priority for me personally right now.

[laktak]

While I agree that it's not the most important feature it would be nice to select a path and do a git log on it.

[extrawurst]

While I agree that it's not the most important feature it would be nice to select a path and do a git log on it.

Getting a file history as requested by @jarod is on the 1.0 roadmap. PRs welcomed :)

gitui will not call the git cli though. so this has to be done using libgit2 like everything else here is