On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Bob Hiestand <bob.hiest...@gmail.com> wrote:
> your post didn't restrict the use to only filtering by path It did; it showed an example of what I'm having to do, where I'm explicitly comparing HEAD:newfile with oldCommit:oldfile. That is what I need to do: compare a particular file with its version in the past. The question is, is there a way to do this without my having to supply the old name of the same file, every darned time. One thinks there should be, because, after all, git does know the old name (as is proved by its ability to log backwards through it). Whenever one has to do something dumb and repetitive, a computer should be doing it for you. That's what I'm asking for in this case. I have dozens of these files to do these comparisons with, a lot. m. PS It isn't my fault that the files were all renamed. Orders from on high, don't you know. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
