Re: Stepping through a single file's history

2010/1/29 Ron Garret [off-list ref]:

Hello,

Is there an easy way to step through the history of a single file?  To be more specific:

...

(The use case here is remembering that back in the day there was some useful code in this file that I want to retrieve, but not remembering exactly when it was deleted.  So I want to step back through this file's history and do diffs against HEAD.)

How about simply doing:

git log -p filename

and then you can search by pressing "/"  and then typing whatever you remember.

John