Get commits history only for a file

[SaidTayebi]

Hi,

how can I get the commits history but only for a particular file, not all the branch ?

thanks !

[johnhaley81]

libgit2/libgit2#1711 might be helpful for this.

[niclashoyer]

I had a quick look at the log example from libgit2 and it seems to use the git_pathspec_match_tree function to match for a given file. The Pathspec#matchTree method in nodegit seems to be the corresponding one. But that method needs a pathspec and

var pathspec = new nodegit.Pathspec();

results in

Error: A new GitPathspec cannot be instantiated.

Is there any way to construct a new pathspec using nodegit?

[johnhaley81]

That object will have to be constructed by the libgit2 library. Right now you'd have to be calling something like git_pathspec_new.

Unfortunately we're ignoring that method right now and I think it's because we don't have a good way to pull in an array of strings and pipe that through C++/C to get it into libgit2.

That's something we'll have to figure out. If you have any ideas we'd certainly would love the help :)

[tbranyen]

Now that git_strarray has landed, we should revisit this.