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From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stepping through a single file's history
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:58:56 +0000
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2010/1/29 Ron Garret <ron@flownet.com>:
> 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