View a file's history in Magit?

Question

View the change history of a file using Git versioning talks about other ways of viewing history of a file in Git.

Can it be done in Emacs Magit?

Answer 1

If magit (user manual) doesn't have that feature, then you can have a look at other Emacs mode, and add you own git-log-file function:

(defun git-log-file ()
  "Display a log of changes to the marked file(s)."
  (interactive)
  (let* ((files (git-marked-files))
         (buffer (apply #'git-run-command-buffer "*git-log*" "git-rev-list" \
"--pretty" "HEAD" "--" (git-get-filenames files))))  (with-current-buffer buffer
      ; (git-log-mode)  FIXME: implement log mode
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (setq buffer-read-only t))
    (display-buffer buffer)))