# Find all commits related to a specific file path

Every now and then a bug is introduced with a new file added to the repo. How do we track down when this file was first committed and any additional commits to this file along the way?  There are many, _many_ ways of doing this in git. One of those ways is to use `git log --follow`:

```sh
git log --follow --name-only -p <file>
```

- `git log`: is the command to view the history of the entire repo
- `--follow`: allows us to "follow" the commit history of a specific file including where a file was renamed
- `--name-only`: allows us to trim the commit message output to only view the file names and metadata associated with the commit message rather than the complete diff
- `-p`: indicates the file path to search for

Using [freeCodeCamp](https://www.github.com/freeCodecamp) Open Source project gives us the following when searching for the Hall Of Fame (HoF.md) file. 

`git log` lists commits in reverse chronological order: (newest first)

Here you can see the file:
- created Feb 6, 2020
- updated on Feb 8, 2020
- updated again on Mar 18, 2020.

```sh
// using a relative path of the root folder freeCodeCamp to find HoF.md

$ git log --follow --name-only -p './HoF.md'

commit 7613df56e1736ae6c53fac3eaedc3570cdb636a9
Author: mrugesh <1884376+raisedadead@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 18 06:23:56 2020 +0530

    chore: add Peter-Samir to HOF (#38384)

    Co-authored-by: Peter-Samir <43256727+Peter-Samir@users.noreply.github.com>

HoF.md

commit 9e1bac4807d0268c561bb8ddad84fffac8ee07e1
Author: mrugesh <1884376+raisedadead@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 8 21:12:19 2020 +0530

    docs: update hall of fame verbiage

HoF.md

commit 158188924b9281f2afe5332c7804ddcd058137c9
Author: Mehul Mohan <mehulmpt@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 6 18:14:20 2020 +0530

    docs: added responsible disclosure and hall of fame

HoF.md
```