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finding the commit that deleted a file

From
CDChristoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de>
Date
Apr 30, 2009, 07:31 UTC
Message-ID
<49F953BC.7070303@melosgmbh.de>

Following scenario: Some file x was deleted (or renamed, but the --follow option does not succeed) some 100 commits ago. Now, I would like to check the 'lost' contents for some reason.

Is it possible to find out when a given file (path) was deleted?
(And then, with the obtained SHA1, use gitk or some such tool to inspect 
  this file.)
Thank you.
Best regards
-- 
Christoph Duelli
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