diff --git a/Default.sublime-commands b/Default.sublime-commands
index 30f0d7d4..a3cb6e56 100644
--- a/Default.sublime-commands
+++ b/Default.sublime-commands
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
         "caption": "Git: Log Current File",
         "command": "git_log"
     }
+    ,{
+        "caption": "Git: Log Current Line",
+        "command": "git_log_line"
+    }
     ,{
         "caption": "Git: Log All",
         "command": "git_log_all"
diff --git a/git/__init__.py b/git/__init__.py
index 7d49d4b6..8e7034c7 100644
--- a/git/__init__.py
+++ b/git/__init__.py
@@ -411,6 +411,9 @@ def get_working_dir(self):
     def get_window(self):
         return self.window
 
+    def get_current_line(self):
+        return -1
+
 
 # A base for all git commands that work with the file in the active view
 class GitTextCommand(GitCommand, sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
@@ -446,3 +449,8 @@ def get_window(self):
         # the case of the quick panel.
         # So, this is not necessarily ideal, but it does work.
         return self.view.window() or sublime.active_window()
+
+    def get_current_line(self):
+        (current_line, column) = self.view.rowcol(self.view.sel()[0].a)
+        # line is 1 based
+        return current_line + 1
diff --git a/git/history.py b/git/history.py
index ccb959a9..e619c2bf 100644
--- a/git/history.py
+++ b/git/history.py
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ def run(self, edit):
         command.append(self.get_file_name())
         self.run_command(command, callback)
 
-    def get_current_line(self):
-        (current_line, column) = self.view.rowcol(self.view.sel()[0].a)
-        # line is 1 based
-        return current_line + 1
-
     def get_lines(self, selection):
         if selection.empty():
             return False
@@ -54,9 +49,11 @@ def blame_done(self, result, focused_line=1):
 class GitLog(object):
     def run(self, edit=None):
         fn = self.get_file_name()
-        return self.run_log(fn != '', '--', fn)
+        ln = self.get_current_line()
+        return self.run_log(fn, ln, '--', fn)
+
+    def run_log(self, fn, ln, *args):
 
-    def run_log(self, follow, *args):
         # the ASCII bell (\a) is just a convenient character I'm pretty sure
         # won't ever come up in the subject of the commit (and if it does then
         # you positively deserve broken output...)
@@ -66,12 +63,16 @@ def run_log(self, follow, *args):
         command = [
             'git', 'log', '--no-color', '--pretty=%s (%h)\a%an <%aE>\a%ad (%ar)',
             '--date=local', '--max-count=9000',
-            '--follow' if follow else None
+            '--follow' if fn != '' and ln == -1 else None,
+            '-L' + str(ln) + ',+1:' + fn if ln != -1 else None,
         ]
-        command.extend(args)
+
+        if(ln == -1):
+            command.extend(args)
+
         self.run_command(
             command,
-            self.log_done)
+            self.log_done if ln == -1 else self.details_done)
 
     def log_done(self, result):
         self.results = [r.split('\a', 2) for r in result.strip().split('\n')]
@@ -99,6 +100,11 @@ def details_done(self, result):
 
 
 class GitLogCommand(GitLog, GitTextCommand):
+    def get_current_line(self):
+        return -1
+
+
+class GitLogLineCommand(GitLog, GitTextCommand):
     pass