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From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stepping through a single file's history
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2010/1/29 John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>:
> 2010/1/29 Ron Garret <ron@flownet.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there an easy way to step through the history of a single file? =C2=
=A0To be more specific:
> ...
>> (The use case here is remembering that back in the day there was som=
e useful code in this file that I want to retrieve, but not remembering=
 exactly when it was deleted. =C2=A0So 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.