How to get status-like short format for old commits?

From: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 26, 2012, 11:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CAA01CsqM_cmf8A5OjdkX4i-ituCWK95ygEoK_Y0-2LkKo1D7kA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I there a way to get a clear status of some past commits, like 'git status' shows for current index/HEAD? I.e. something like

git status HEAD^ # modified: Makefile # deleted: t/t0080-vcs-svn.sh # new file: t/t9011-svn-da.sh # renamed: xxx -> yyy

Thanks,

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Piotr Krukowiecki