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From: "Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com>
Subject: Re: How to compare different files in different branches
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:30:44 +0100
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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 ?