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how to diff versions of a file

From
Matt Graham <mdg149@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2009, 05:00 UTC
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<1c5969370902022100h7c03bbb6h2d9f443f877d89ec@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, I'm curious if there's a way to diff between 2 arbitrary versions of a file.

For example, how can I see the diff between tree.c on HEAD and from 3 edits (of tree.c) ago?

I can do git log and then manually use commit names to do the diff, but I'm hoping there's a single command that will let me do that.

Thanks, Matt

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