From: "Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com>
To: "Nico -telmich- Schottelius" <nico-git-20080606@schottelius.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to compare different files in different branches
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:30:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57518fd10806060530k7a15f79fh1823afef2a747233@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080606122421.GA1521@denkbrett.schottelius.org>
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius
<nico-git-20080606@schottelius.org> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I want to compare 'configure.in' from the master branch with
> 'configure.ac' from the gpm-2-dev branch.
>
> What I tried:
>
> % git-diff master..gpm-2-dev configure.ac
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'configure.ac': unknown revision or path not
> in the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
>
> # ok, correct, there is no configure.ac in master
> # But not what I want.
>
> % git-diff master..gpm-2-dev configure.in
>
> # shows that the file does not exist in gpm-2-dev. Correct.
> # But not what I want.
>
How about git diff master:configure.in gm-2-dev:configure.ac ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-06 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-06 12:24 How to compare different files in different branches Nico -telmich- Schottelius
2008-06-06 12:30 ` Jonathan del Strother [this message]
2008-06-06 12:34 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-06 12:38 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-06 12:35 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-06-08 9:47 ` Nico -telmich- Schottelius
2008-06-08 9:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-15 1:49 ` Ask Bjørn Hansen
2008-06-16 12:21 ` git-svn breaks svn when adding .svn Nico -telmich- Schottelius
[not found] ` <200806161603.05166.thomas@koch.ro>
2008-06-16 16:09 ` Frederik Dohr
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