Get commit info of last modified version of a file

Source: R/gitLog.R

Returns a data.frame including the commit hash, last author and datetime of all commits for all input files.

gitLog(list_of_files, last_rev_only = FALSE)

Arguments

list_of_files

vector of file paths (can also pass only 1 file)

last_rev_only

if set to TRUE will only return the last commit, author and datetime of last revision

Examples

with_demoRepo({
  gitLog("script/examp-txt.txt")
})
#>                   file                              last_commit last_author
#> 1 script/examp-txt.txt 95d1363acafc4d610863d73bcab7c72c8418e794    michaelm
#> 2 script/examp-txt.txt 27933ecbef5f0352dc785ef5ad87dbfa08ce4082    michaelm
#> 3 script/examp-txt.txt bbf461981e0ffdc663976f7e193ee07f752808b1    michaelm
#>               last_datetime
#> 1 2025-09-16T12:31:57-04:00
#> 2 2025-09-16T12:31:57-04:00
#> 3 2025-09-16T12:31:56-04:00