From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:47:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Stepping through a single file's history
Message-ID: <43d8ce651001281947m2505dbcco992ad98ddbfeaeae@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce651001281758x79965b5fn8760b69d4fe82a36@mail.gmail.com>

2010/1/29 John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.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

You can also do like:

git show HEAD~3:path/filename

where path is the path from the top of the git repository.  This would
show the file as it was 3 revisions ago.

You can also do like:

git checkout HEAD~3 filename

to checkout the first as it was 3 revisions ago.