From: Pete Harlan <pgit@pcharlan•com>
To: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail•com>
Cc: Ron Garret <ron@flownet•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stepping through a single file's history
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:26:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B653E9F.2080109@pcharlan.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce651001281758x79965b5fn8760b69d4fe82a36@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/28/2010 05:58 PM, John Tapsell wrote:
> 2010/1/29 Ron Garret <ron@flownet•com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there an easy way to step through the history of a single file?
>> To be more specific:
> ...
>> (The use case here is remembering that back in the day there was
>> some useful code in this file that I want to retrieve, but not
>> remembering exactly when it was deleted. So I want to step back
>> through this file's history and do diffs against HEAD.)
>
> How about simply doing:
>
> git log -p filename
>
> and then you can search by pressing "/" and then typing whatever you
> remember.
>
> John
Have you tried "git log -Sfoo filename", which finds commits that
changed the number of occurrances of string "foo" in filename? I've
found that quite useful in digging up deleted code.
It's not as thorough as grepping "git log -p filename", but in practice
I've found it very effective.
--Pete
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-31 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-29 1:28 Stepping through a single file's history Ron Garret
2010-01-29 1:58 ` John Tapsell
2010-01-29 3:47 ` John Tapsell
2010-01-31 8:26 ` Pete Harlan [this message]
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