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Re: How to compare different files in different branches

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 6, 2008, 12:34 UTC
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Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-git-20080606@schottelius.org> writes:
> I want to compare 'configure.in' from the master branch with
> 'configure.ac' from the gpm-2-dev branch.
[...]
> I really think git can do that, but currently I do not see the right
> way. So any idea on how to do that?
 $ git diff master:configure.in gpm-2-dev:configure.ac

See "Specifying revisions" in git-rev-list(1); I think it can be also found in other places, but I'm not sure. git-show(1) refers to this section when describing <object> option.

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Jakub Narebski
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