GIT-LAST-MODIFIED(1)

✨ git-last-modified(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to git-last-modified — it's a manual page, it's a vibe, it's giving "detective but make it git" 💅 (the official manual name is git-last-modified(1), fyi, in case you were wondering what to call it at parties 🎀)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

git-last-modified — EXPERIMENTAL: shows you when files were last modified 🕵️‍♀️✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

git last-modified [--recursive] [--show-trees] [--max-depth=<depth>] [-z]
                  [<revision-range>] [[--] <pathspec>...]

no cap, that's the whole shape of it 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what does it do? It shows which commit last modified each of the relevant files and subdirectories 🔥 A commit that renames a path also counts, and so does a commit that changes the path's mode — everything's taken into account, we're being thorough 💅

⚠️ THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE. ⚠️ like, genuinely — it's not settled yet, so don't come for me if it shifts on you 😭

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -r, --recursive — recursively traverse into all the subtrees 🌳 By default the command only shows tree entries that match the <pathspec>. With this option it descends into subtrees and displays all the entries inside them. It's exactly equivalent to --max-depth=-1 ⭐
• -t, --show-trees — show tree entries even when it's recursing into them 👀
• --max-depth=<depth> — for each pathspec you give on the command line, traverse at most <depth> levels into subtrees. A negative value means no limit 🚀 The default is 0, which shows all paths matching the pathspec without descending into subtrees — so chill, it's not going digging unless you ask 🧚
• -z — terminate each line with a NUL character instead of a newline 🫶 (yes, that's the whole personality of this flag)
• <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 the complete list of ways to spell <revision-range>, see the Specifying Ranges section of gitrevisions(7) 📖
• [--] <pathspec>... — show the commit that last modified each path matching <pathspec>. If you don't give a <pathspec>, all files and subdirectories are included 💖 See gitglossary(7) for the details on pathspec syntax, iykyk 🌈

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🎀 OUTPUT 🎀

The output is in this format:

<oid> TAB <path> LF

If a path contains any special characters, the path is C-style quoted 🙈 To avoid the quoting, pass option -z to terminate each line with a NUL:

<oid> TAB <path> NUL

there you go, delicious, parsed 🌸

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

git-blame(1), git-log(1) 🦋

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⭐ GIT ⭐

Part of the git(1) suite 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie — slay, go find out when your files were last touched 💅✨

that was git-last-modified(1) from Git 2.56.0, dated 2026-09-27 — mwah, see you in the next manpage 🎀🫶💖