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git-last-modified - EXPERIMENTAL: Show when files were last modified

git last-modified [--recursive] [--show-trees] [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]

Shows which commit last modified each of the relevant files and subdirectories. A commit renaming a path, or changing it’s mode is also taken into account.

THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.

-r, --recursive

Instead of showing tree entries, step into subtrees and show all entries inside them recursively.

-t, --show-trees

Show tree entries even when recursing into them. It has no effect without --recursive.

<revision-range>

Only traverse commits in the specified revision range. When no <revision-range> is specified, it defaults to HEAD (i.e. the whole history leading to the current commit). For a complete list of ways to spell <revision-range>, see the Specifying Ranges section of gitrevisions(7).

[--] <path>...

For each <path> given, the commit which last modified it is returned. Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories in path traversal the are included in the output.

git-blame(1), git-log(1).

Part of the git(1) suite

2026-02-01 Git 2.53.0