See the History of a Method with git log -L (via) Neat Git trick from Caleb Hearth that I hadn’t seen before, and it works for Python out of the box:
git log -L :path_with_format:__init__.py
That command displays a log (with diffs) of just the portion of commits that changed the path_with_format function in the __init__.py file.
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