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Digging through old vendor code

From
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2008, 04:09 UTC
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I have a file that a vendor has modified. It's a serial driver so I know which directory the original file came from. Is there a way to ask git to search through all of the past versions of all of the files in this directory and give me the top two or three choices as to what file the vendor originally copied before staring to edit? This is the same problem as picking the best diff base.

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