Re: how to display file history?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 15, 2006, 06:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7v64k7wzzf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <CFF307C98FEABE47A452B27C06B85BB670F4FD@hdsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>

"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> writes:

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>>	git whatchanged A
>
> thanks.  I've used this on entire repos before, but
> for some reason didn't think of this command name
> when looking for individual file history.

Probably with recent enough git, one of

	git log --stat -- A
	git log -p -- A
	git log -p --full-diff -- A

might be more pleasant, depending on what you are trying to look for.

"A" can be a single file, more than one files, a directory,...