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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to compare different files in different branches
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-git-20080606@schottelius.org> writes:
> 
> > I want to compare 'configure.in' from the master branch with
> > 'configure.ac' from the gpm-2-dev branch.
> [...]
> > I really think git can do that, but currently I do not see the right
> > way. So any idea on how to do that?
> 
>  $ git diff master:configure.in gpm-2-dev:configure.ac

 $ git diff -M master gpm-2-dev -- configure.in configure.ac

should also work.
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Jakub Narebski
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