From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, dtletmn <dtletmedn@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does CVS has a easy way to compare file with its previous version?
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:18:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906301813480.3605@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4A9FA5.7000009@gnu.org>
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> I think he wants something more like
>
> git diff `git log -2 --pretty=format:%h` <file> -- <file>
That's a rather difficult way of saying
git log --no-merges -p -1 <filename>
which seems much simpler. Sure, you'll get the commit message too, but
that just sounds like gravy to me (you can use "--pretty=oneline" or
something to make it denser).
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 7:41 Does CVS has a easy way to compare file with its previous version? dtletmn
2009-06-30 11:32 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-06-30 12:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-30 23:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-01 1:18 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-07-02 18:04 ` Eric Raible
2009-07-03 6:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-06 23:39 ` Eric Raible
2009-07-07 19:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-01 0:29 ` dtletmn
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