Re: Stepping through a single file's history

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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.
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