Florian Weimer wrote: > How can I view the previous commit touching a specific line, so that I > can see what was there before? For instance, the change could be > whitespace-only, so that I want to dig deeper. You can always use "git blame -L<lineno>,+1 <revision> -- <file>". Or use pickaxe search, i.e. "git log -S'<fragment>' <revision> -- <file>". -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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