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README.md

Following renames in gitlog

This demo serves as a minimal working example for the blog post

https://peterbabic.dev/blog/following-renames-in-gitlog

The method outlined here is curently used in my blog to determine when the markdown blog post file was published and also when it was last edited.

Setup

git clone https://git.peterbabic.dev/demo/following-renames-gitlog.git
cd following-renames-gitlog
npm install
npm run dev

This should produce the following output:

{
  status: [ 'M' ],
  files: [ 'renamed-blog-post.md' ],
  subject: 'add additional sentence to to blog post',
  authorName: 'Peter Babič',
  authorDate: '2020-12-03 22:07:31 +0100'
}
{
  status: [ 'M' ],
  files: [ 'renamed-blog-post.md' ],
  subject: 'insert a chapter into post',
  authorName: 'Peter Babič',
  authorDate: '2020-12-03 21:51:19 +0100'
}
{
  status: [ 'R100', 'D' ],
  files: [ 'renamed-blog-post.md', 'blog-post.md' ],
  subject: 'rename blog post',
  authorName: 'Peter Babič',
  authorDate: '2020-12-03 21:49:27 +0100'
}
{
  status: [ 'A' ],
  files: [ 'blog-post.md' ],
  subject: 'insert blog post file to track',
  authorName: 'Peter Babič',
  authorDate: '2020-12-03 20:54:27 +0100'
}

Which is equivalent to the command

git log --follow --name-status renamed-blog-post.md

Producing the output

commit 48831b93a453f7c88838620509ccae6f9feaf851
Author: Peter Babič <peter@peterbabic.dev>
Date:   Thu Dec 3 22:07:31 2020 +0100

    add additional sentence to to blog post

M       renamed-blog-post.md

commit f6732cbfb7d787f62190b983f73901dd05f749e5
Author: Peter Babič <peter@peterbabic.dev>
Date:   Thu Dec 3 21:51:19 2020 +0100

    insert a chapter into post

M       renamed-blog-post.md

commit 70955f7c2ecdec469226f8226a10ad313497972e
Author: Peter Babič <peter@peterbabic.dev>
Date:   Thu Dec 3 21:49:27 2020 +0100

    rename blog post

R100    blog-post.md    renamed-blog-post.md

commit 86b45b4a5a7aee4726834e70f0ede60ac961abc5
Author: Peter Babič <peter@peterbabic.dev>
Date:   Thu Dec 3 20:54:27 2020 +0100

    insert blog post file to track

A       blog-post.md

With the difference that the former is already parsed and ready to use in a script.

License

MIT