magit: how to diff the same file between two different commits on the same branch?

Question

How can I get the diff between two commits of the same file using magit?

Directly form git one can do this. But I don't know how to do it from within magit. From magit-status it seems that d and D returns the diff of the whole repository. This is very problematic for me as the repository is huge and it causes magit (and in turn emacs) to become unresponsive. Is there a way to ask magit to restrict the search to only one file from the repository?

I also tried, in the magit-status buffer to do : diff $start_commit..$end_commit -- path/to/file. This works, but the output is a simple buffer without any highlighting nor any folding options...

Answer 1

You can also do M-x and magit-ediff-compare.

Then enter the SHA of the older commit and then the filename of the file you want to compare to HEAD, all on the same branch.