How to find the commit in which a given file was added?

Here’s simpler, “pure Git” way to do it, with no pipeline needed: git log –diff-filter=A — foo.js Check the documentation. You can do the same thing for Deleted, Modified, etc. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#Documentation/git-log.txt—diff-filterACDMRTUXB82308203 I have a handy alias for this, because I always forget it: git config –global alias.whatadded ‘log –diff-filter=A’ This makes it as simple as: … Read more

git: Your branch is ahead by X commits

If you get this message after doing a git pull remote branch, try following it up with a git fetch. (Optionally, run git fetch -p to prune deleted branches from the repo) Fetch seems to update the local representation of the remote branch, which doesn’t necessarily happen when you do a git pull remote branch.

Remove sensitive files and their commits from Git history

For all practical purposes, the first thing you should be worried about is CHANGING YOUR PASSWORDS! It’s not clear from your question whether your git repository is entirely local or whether you have a remote repository elsewhere yet; if it is remote and not secured from others you have a problem. If anyone has cloned … Read more