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Re: I still use git whatchanged

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KHKristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
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Oct 14, 2025, 07:10 UTC
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2025, at 01:01, Samer Abdallah wrote:
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> Hi Kristoffer,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
> I should have added that I use it to see the history of changes for the current
> file I’m editing, using the `-p` option and a file name argument, (and binding
> it to the command `:Ghist` in vim.)
>
> However, the following seems to produce the same output, as you suggested
>
> 	git log -p --no-merges —raw <filename>
Good. That’s great.
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