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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does CVS has a easy way to compare file with its previous version?
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:39:33 +0200
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On 07/02/2009 08:04 PM, Eric Raible wrote:
> Isn't the first one incorrect because<file>  needs to be inside the backticks?
> git diff `git log -2 --pretty=format:%h<file>` --<file>
>
> And isn't the replacement incorrect also (the diffs are backwards)?
> git log --no-merges -p -R -1<file>

Yes and no.

Paolo