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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...
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You can run the git diff HEAD command to compare the both staged and unstaged changes with your last commit. You can also run the git diff <branch_name1> <branch_name2> command to compare the changes from the first branch with changes from the second branch.
By executing the git diff command, we can see the differences between these two files. By default, the git diff command produces a diff for all files between the latest commit and the current state of the repository.
Overview. The git diff command is used to perform the diff function on Git data sources. For example, commits, branches, files, and so on. It can also be used to compare two files of different branches.
The git diff HEAD [filename] command allows you to compare the file version in your working directory with the file version last committed in your remote repository. The HEAD in the git command refers to the remote repository.
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.
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