2010/1/29 John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 You can also do like: git show HEAD~3:path/filename where path is the path from the top of the git repository. This would show the file as it was 3 revisions ago. You can also do like: git checkout HEAD~3 filename to checkout the first as it was 3 revisions ago. -- 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