--- type: reference, howto description: "Documentation on Git file history." --- # Git file history > [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/9ba1224867665844b117fa037e1465bb706b3685/app/controllers/commits_controller.rb) in GitLab 0.8.0 Git file History provides information about the commit history associated with a file. You can find the **History** button with each file in a project.  When you select the **History** button, you'll see a screen with the noted information:  If you hover over a commit in the UI, you'll see a precise date and time that commit was last modified. ## Associated `git` command If you're running `git` from the command line, the equivalent command is `git log <filename>`. For example, if you want to find `history` information about a `README.md` file in the local directory, run the following command: ```shell git log README.md ``` You'll see output similar to the following, which includes the commit time in UTC format: ```shell commit 0e62ed6d9f39fa9bedf7efc6edd628b137fa781a Author: Mike Jang <mjang@gitlab.com> Date: Tue Nov 26 21:44:53 2019 +0000 Deemphasize GDK as a doc build tool commit 418879420b1e3a4662067bd07b64bb6988654697 Author: Marcin Sedlak-Jakubowski <msedlakjakubowski@gitlab.com> Date: Mon Nov 4 19:58:27 2019 +0100 Fix typo commit 21cc1fef11349417ed515557748369cfb235fc81 Author: Jacques Erasmus <jerasmus@gitlab.com> Date: Mon Oct 14 22:13:40 2019 +0000 Add support for modern JS Added rollup to the project commit 2f5e895aebfa5678e51db303b97de56c51e3cebe Author: Achilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com> Date: Fri Sep 13 14:03:01 2019 +0000 Remove gitlab-foss Git URLs as we don't need them anymore [ci skip] ```