I'm working with large codebase (40GB repo) and I cant afford to switch branches and checkout other branch because their external dependency system will clear current setup (and it is a nightmare to redownload trillion of GB of data every time) yet somehow, I need to find out the following:

• find all changes in Source/Some/Custom/Dir
• ideally, for just *.cs files
• starting from July 3 2022 up to September 1 2022
• in (remote) branch origin/extra_branch (different from my current)
• display it as commit history with comments and files changed or/and changes itself

CodePudding user response：

You can use

git log --name-status --since=2022-07-03 --until=2022-09-01 origin/extra_branch -- 'Source/Some/Custom/Dir/**.cs'

Some notes:

• --since and --until inspect the committer date, not the author date. This means, for example, if the branch was rebased recently (after 2022-09-01), then none of the rebased commits would be listed because the committer date is later than 2022-09-01.
• Replace --name-status with other options that control the output, e.g., --stat, --patch, --name-only.
• The double-asterisk in .../**.cs ensures that paths are inspected in lower directories recursively.
• As usual, the provided pathspec ensures that only commits are found that make changes to these paths. Additionally, only these paths are listed. To get the complete change in the commit, add --full-diff.