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Comment by linkmotif | Hacker News Reader

Not to be that guy but: git log -p $file. Works great IMO.

That will show you the diffs, but if you want to see the files side by side, you could do something like:

  diff -y <(first_sha1:path/to/file) <(second_sha1:path/to/file)

The command should actually read:

  diff -y <(git show first_sha1:path/to/file) <(git show second_sha1:path/to/file)

Just the other day I had a coworker freak out when he saw me do this. It baffles me how a professional developer could use git for years and never read the manual.

yep. Or even just some blog posts or whatever. Git is the worst-presented tool I think, it’s a shame.

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