From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:18:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Does CVS has a easy way to compare file with its previous version?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906301813480.3605@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <4A4A9FA5.7000009@gnu.org>



On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> I think he wants something more like
> 
> git diff `git log -2 --pretty=format:%h` <file> -- <file>

That's a rather difficult way of saying

	git log --no-merges -p -1 <filename>

which seems much simpler. Sure, you'll get the commit message too, but 
that just sounds like gravy to me (you can use "--pretty=oneline" or 
something to make it denser).

			Linus