From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does CVS has a easy way to compare file with its previous version?
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:04:45 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20090702T174843-784@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LFD.2.01.0906301813480.3605@localhost.localdomain
Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 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
Isn't the first one incorrect because <file> needs to be inside the backticks?
git diff `git log -2 --pretty=format:%h <file>` -- <file>
And isn't the replacement incorrect also (the diffs are backwards)?
git log --no-merges -p -R -1 <file>
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-02 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 7:41 Does CVS has a easy way to compare file with its previous version? dtletmn
2009-06-30 11:32 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-06-30 12:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-30 23:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-01 1:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-02 18:04 ` Eric Raible [this message]
2009-07-03 6:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-06 23:39 ` Eric Raible
2009-07-07 19:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-01 0:29 ` dtletmn
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