特定ディレクトリを対象にgit logする

下記のようにして、特定ディレクトリのみを対象にしたgit logが可能です。

git log -- path/to/directory

はじめに
特定ディレクトリを対象にgit logする
- コマンド
- 具体例
おわりに
参考

はじめに

特定ディレクトリのみを対象にしてgit logする方法がパッとわからなかったので、備忘録を残します。

特定ディレクトリを対象にgit logする

コマンド

--の後にディレクトリを指定することで、特定ディレクトリを対象にgit logすることが可能です。

git log -- path/to/directory

--は、オプション等とディレクトリ指定の区切りを示すものです。 --以後に指定するものはファイルやディレクトリのパスですよ、という区切りの意味を持ちます。

Ref. Git - git-log Documentation

具体例

Kubernetesのレポジトリを題材に、実際にコマンドを実行してみます。

まずはそのままgit log:

$ git log
commit 0d9dccfc6bc22f2370650cf5b8ad99cbba74ea23 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Merge: 66931f07d9c 95b926c93a4
Author: Kubernetes Prow Robot <20407524+k8s-ci-robot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Sat Apr 19 16:20:59 2025 -0700

    Merge pull request #131382 from liggitt/watch-list-e2e
    
    Correctly feature-gate WatchList e2e

commit 95b926c93a456c3a1cb8177fdfae9617ac211cf8
Author: Jordan Liggitt <liggitt@google.com>
Date:   Sat Apr 19 17:18:31 2025 -0400

    Feature-gate watchlist e2e

commit 66931f07d9c3a4b8b7aecb5649d710896001047c
Merge: b53b9fb5573 660df229bf3
Author: Kubernetes Prow Robot <20407524+k8s-ci-robot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 18 07:55:08 2025 -0700

    Merge pull request #131359 from deads2k/disable
    
    Stop exposing list-via-watch from the server

commit 660df229bf3929741cf31659187060d0c651dcf9
Author: David Eads <deads@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 17 16:34:46 2025 -0400

    Stop exposing list-via-watch from the server
    
    With StreamingCollectionEncodingToJSON and
    StreamingCollectionEncodingToProtobuf, the WatchList must re-justify its
    necessity.  To prevent an ecosystem from building around a feature that
    may not be promoted, we will stop serving list-via-watch until
    performance numbers can justify its inclusion.
    
    This also stops the kube-controller-manager from using the
    list-via-watch by default.  The fallback is a regular list, so during
    the skew during an upgrade the "right" thing will happen and the new
    StreamingCollectionEncoding will be used.

commit b53b9fb5573323484af9a19cf3f5bfe80760abba
Merge: 44c230bf5c3 a8f6d77c8da
Author: Kubernetes Prow Robot <20407524+k8s-ci-robot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 16 11:05:08 2025 -0700

    Merge pull request #131015 from aojea/final_servicecidr
    
    Add the missing Conformance Test for ServiceCIDR and IPAddress APIS

commit a8f6d77c8da6c5df574048884a54198314cee0ae
Author: Antonio Ojea <aojea@google.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 15 14:52:14 2025 +0000

    ServiceCIDR and IPAddess Conformance
    
    Change-Id: I6ee188cc8c163c312f8a8da9f1277d83e1ea634c

最新コミットから順にコミット履歴が表示されています。

次にgit log -- ./docsで、./docsディレクトリを対象にしたgit logを出力してみます。

$ git log -- ./docs
commit 04b178b49bd35529de40dd84a18ebfd034b22096
Author: Jordan Liggitt <liggitt@google.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 5 14:24:21 2022 -0400

    Make root approval non-recursive

commit 9682b7248fb69733c2a0ee53618856e87b067f16
Author: Davanum Srinivas <davanum@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 3 10:59:47 2022 -0500

    OWNERS cleanup - Jan 2021 Week 1
    
    Signed-off-by: Davanum Srinivas <davanum@gmail.com>

commit 56e092e382038b01c61fff96efb5982a2cb137cb
Author: Benjamin Elder <bentheelder@google.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 28 14:17:42 2021 -0800

    hack/update-bazel.sh

commit 5c88b7f25b0781d60fea6017d3a939c0e962316c
Author: Davanum Srinivas <davanum@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 11 10:35:20 2020 -0400

    Add sigs for root folders
    
    Signed-off-by: Davanum Srinivas <davanum@gmail.com>

commit b43c04452f3b563473b5c2a765d4ac18cc0ff58f
Author: Roy Lenferink <lenferinkroy@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 30 20:05:00 2019 +0100

    Updated OWNERS files to include link to docs

commit 54e8d7392067598618805beba61ef719abfce28b
Author: Lubomir I. Ivanov <lubomirivanov@vmware.com>
Date:   Sat Oct 20 21:15:03 2018 +0300

    docs: stop tracking placeholder documentation
    
    The placeholder documentation introduces a couple of problems:
    - it complicates the contributor-experience (forces the CI to run
    N times before the contributor finds out that they need to call an .sh
    script and include certain files from docs/)
    - it forces CLI related pull requests for tools like kubeadm and kubectl
    to require top level approval from docs/OWNERS as such PRs still need
    to touch the .generated_docs file
    
    Stop tracking the placeholder documentation by applying the
    following actions:
    - remove the utility set-placeholder-gen-docs()
    - make verify-generated-docs.sh only generate in a temporary folder
    and not match .generated_docs
    - mark generate-docs.sh as an alias for update-generated-docs.sh
    - remove all current placeholder files in docs folders admin, man,
    user-guide, yaml
    - ignore the above folders and .generated_docs in a .gitignore file