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From: Matt Graham <mdg149@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: how to diff versions of a file
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:00:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c5969370902022100h7c03bbb6h2d9f443f877d89ec@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,
I'm curious if there's a way to diff between 2 arbitrary versions of a file.

For example, how can I see the diff between tree.c on HEAD and from 3
edits (of tree.c) ago?

I can do git log and then manually use commit names to do the diff,
but I'm hoping there's a single command that will let me do that.

Thanks,
Matt

             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-03  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-03  5:00 Matt Graham [this message]
2009-02-03  6:08 ` how to diff versions of a file david
2009-02-03  6:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-03 13:48     ` Matt Graham
2009-02-03  7:34 ` Jeff King

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