From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to track changes of a file
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:56:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485646F9.1030300@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48564499.3050008@gmail.com>
bill lam schrieb:
> I want to see what had been done to a particular file, so I started with
> the log,
>
> $ git-log --no-color glinvc03.ijs |grep commit |head -3
> commit 23335cf4acadb9f09410f106adbcc2b190fe9c70
> commit 31e4f2c519caa9afa2e29ed8ffb40deb62aa972f
> commit b515f020d05f2967a7283751c8dd3740de7136a4
All you neede here probably was just
$ git rev-list -3 -- glinvc03.ijs
> I want to know how to,
> 1. cat the content this file for these 3 versions
$ git show {23335c,31e4f2,b515f0}:glinvc03.ijs
> 2. show the differences between versions,
$ git log -p -2 -- glinvc03.ijs
> I use vim to view man page, and git-log without redirection will invoke
> vim as a man viewer. Does git-log always use man? Without the
> --no-color option there will be some "33m" prepending to some lines, is
> there any global setting to turn off color in git-log?
You have set PAGER=vim in your .profile? Then put
GIT_PAGER=less; export GIT_PAGER
there, too.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-16 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-16 10:46 how to track changes of a file bill lam
2008-06-16 10:56 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2008-06-16 15:49 ` bill lam
2008-06-16 16:08 ` Johannes Sixt
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=485646F9.1030300@viscovery.net \
--to=j.sixt@viscovery.net \
--cc=cbill.lam@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).