Re: Stepping through a single file's history

2010/1/29 John Tapsell [off-list ref]:

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

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Hello,

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

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(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

You can also do like:

git show HEAD~3:path/filename

where path is the path from the top of the git repository.  This would
show the file as it was 3 revisions ago.

You can also do like:

git checkout HEAD~3 filename

to checkout the first as it was 3 revisions ago.