From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Digging through old vendor code Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:09:27 -0500 Message-ID: <9e4733910801122009k5658488bx69c04a5cbf7d832a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Git Mailing List" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 13 05:09:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JDuAV-0000LK-Um for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:09:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753066AbYAMEJ2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:09:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753072AbYAMEJ2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:09:28 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:57799 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753063AbYAMEJ1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:09:27 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so2796038wah.23 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:09:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=KGAVT9lxc1TqM4yVJo33Md3Db8QqF9QKjvKl/lQcq/U=; b=M1NBL2N+g8TqMKhoXzP2fS/kUhLcyvdn/EMSxwohAut8AKkMtSvcJf9K2doW9XbDlZfFASMvnQu6J9kSxqiOWcWZGTFho0Fz01mcozhPwPtWaWVTelSqJebJT9bKW/fAJ6XCMMrH9C60ZzWlSDdG85shrb7ejqzHaxeDMZZhmoY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=i1lNbLdau4/LKEbSO3xm7Hed3V79bI5RxBY+x1WNBNwgOVALZcPimbYZznpYQuRhvx50NrXlRSwh7sCA88lSlYrtsMpvDgb8i2oLvwYl2CisCJUzocrw1Pl57VrLCLnDktmctglmygMhxNT6Z4kyMQW62q0JIoE+W5iaO4cR7Us= Received: by 10.114.168.1 with SMTP id q1mr181248wae.96.1200197367125; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:09:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.200.7 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:09:27 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I have a file that a vendor has modified. It's a serial driver so I know which directory the original file came from. Is there a way to ask git to search through all of the past versions of all of the files in this directory and give me the top two or three choices as to what file the vendor originally copied before staring to edit? This is the same problem as picking the best diff base. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com