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

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Say I have a file foo.js that was committed some time ago. I would like to simply find the commit where this file was first added.

After reading the answers and my own tinkering, this works for me

git log --follow --diff-filter=A --find-renames=40% foo.js
git-commit git-log commit git
5 Answers

If it's an alternative to do it non-programatically, this is very quick. Open gitk GUI.

gitk file

Then just scroll to the first commit

user_35450940

The above answers worked for me on files in the root directory of the database with no spaces in the filename. However it didn't work on files in a subfolder with spaces in the filename.

I am a GitLab user, so I was able to browse for the file and then click on the file name, and on the next page click "History". Then I could find the first commit in the file's history.

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