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Re: Wanted - a file browser interface to git

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Oct 19, 2005, 01:07 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0510181806250.3369@g5.osdl.org>
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, John Ellson wrote:
> 
> An example is:  "I know that file xxx contained algorithm yyy at some point in
> the past and now I'd like to browse back through the history of xxx to find
> the exact details."
You are aware of "git whatchanged -p xxx", right?

Yeah, it's not graphical, and I agree that it might be very cool to have a graphical version of it. But I thought I'd mention it even so. A surprising number of people seem to have never realized, and at least for me personally, it's one of the most common things I do.

		Linus
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