bill lam schrieb: > I want to see what had been done to a particular file, so I started with > the log, > > $ git-log --no-color glinvc03.ijs |grep commit |head -3 > commit 23335cf4acadb9f09410f106adbcc2b190fe9c70 > commit 31e4f2c519caa9afa2e29ed8ffb40deb62aa972f > commit b515f020d05f2967a7283751c8dd3740de7136a4 All you neede here probably was just $ git rev-list -3 -- glinvc03.ijs > I want to know how to, > 1. cat the content this file for these 3 versions $ git show {23335c,31e4f2,b515f0}:glinvc03.ijs > 2. show the differences between versions, $ git log -p -2 -- glinvc03.ijs > I use vim to view man page, and git-log without redirection will invoke > vim as a man viewer. Does git-log always use man? Without the > --no-color option there will be some "33m" prepending to some lines, is > there any global setting to turn off color in git-log? You have set PAGER=vim in your .profile? Then put GIT_PAGER=less; export GIT_PAGER there, too. -- Hannes -- 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