On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 01:34, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > david@xxxxxxx writes: > >> I don't think it's trivial > > I think you meant to say it _is_ trivial. > >> If you just wanted three commits ago you could do >> >> git diff HEAD..HEAD^^^ tree.c > > That would give you a reverse diff; I think you probably meant the other > way around, "git diff HEAD~3 HEAD tree.c". > >> but three changes to tree.c ago I think you need to do multiple >> iterations of git blame to find out what commit was three edits ago. > > git diff $(git rev-list -3 HEAD -- tree.c | sed -n -e '$p') HEAD -- tree.c > > This assumes that the history is linear but your statement "three edits > ago" already assumes that, so... Thanks Junio, this is exactly what I was asking for. And thanks for the tip about it depending on the history being linear. -- 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
