Find commits that modify file names matching a pattern in a GIT repository

Question

I\'d like to find commits in my code base that add video files to throw them out. Is there a way to look for these files in git ?

For example let\'s say all videos have

Answer 1

If the goal is to remove the files from the repository (thus rewriting history), use the BFG Repo-Cleaner, e.g.:

bfg --delete-files '*.wmv' --private --no-blob-protection

If the files are relevant, you can keep them under version control using Git LFS. To migrate (also rewriting history), you do something such as:

git-lfs-migrate \
    -s original.git  \
    -d converted.git \
    -l https://user:passwd@custom-server.org:8080 \
    '*.wmv'

To simply list or examine the commits, I refer to knittl's answer:

git rev-list --all -- '*.wmv'
git log --all -- '*.wmv'