From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:58:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Stepping through a single file's history
Message-ID: <43d8ce651001281758x79965b5fn8760b69d4fe82a36@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5699F80A-4B27-4BAB-BEE8-5C48938A970B@flownet.com>

2010/1/29 Ron Garret <ron@flownet.com>:
> 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

and then you can search by pressing "/"  and then typing whatever you remember.

John