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using git, I want to list all the different revisions of a given file.
Then, I want to choose a particular version and compare it when another.
How can I do this?
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The git diff command displays the differences between files in two commits or between a commit and your current repository. You can see what text has been added to, removed from, and changed in a file. By default, the git diff command displays any uncommitted changes to your repository.
To see the changes between two commits, you can use git diff ID1.. ID2 , where ID1 and ID2 identify the two commits you're interested in, and the connector .. is a pair of dots. For example, git diff abc123.. def456 shows the differences between the commits abc123 and def456 , while git diff HEAD~1..
Comparing changes with git diff Diffing is a function that takes two input data sets and outputs the changes between them. git diff is a multi-use Git command that when executed runs a diff function on Git data sources. These data sources can be commits, branches, files and more.
To show a history of changes to a particular file, you can use git log:
git log -p -- path/to/file The -p tells it to show the diff between each revision and its parent. To get a cumulative diff between two revisions, take the ID of the two revisions, and pass them to git diff:
git diff abc123 def456 -- path/to/file. Where abc123 and def456 are the revision IDs.
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