From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:34:59 GMT
Subject: Re: How to compare different files in different branches
Message-ID: <m3skvqyc78.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20080606122421.GA1521@denkbrett.schottelius.org>

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.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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