Re: Stepping through a single file's history

On 01/28/2010 05:58 PM, John Tapsell wrote:

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

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

John

Have you tried "git log -Sfoo filename", which finds commits that
changed the number of occurrances of string "foo" in filename?  I've
found that quite useful in digging up deleted code.

It's not as thorough as grepping "git log -p filename", but in practice
I've found it very effective.

--Pete