2010/1/29 Ron Garret <ron@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello, > > Is there an easy way to step through the history of a single file? To be more specific: ... > (The use case here is remembering that back in the day there was some useful code in this file that I want to retrieve, but not remembering exactly when it was deleted. So I want to step back through this file's history and do diffs against HEAD.) How about simply doing: git log -p filename and then you can search by pressing "/" and then typing whatever you remember. John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html