Navigate a file's history

To go back in time through a file's commit history in Git, you can use git log and git checkout commands. Here's the concise process:

View the file's commit history:

`git log --follow <path>`

Display a file's full commit history including renames.

Check out a specific previous version:

`git checkout <commit> -- <pathname>`

Restores a file or directory to its state from a specific commit.

Or to see the contents without checking out:

`git show <commit>:<pathname>`

Display the contents of a file as it existed in a specified commit.

To restore to the previous version of the file:

`git checkout HEAD <pathname>`

Restore a file from the most recent commit

You can also use git blame to see line-by-line commit history:

`git blame <pathname>`

identify changes in a file by author and time.