alternatively,
you can try
type*: git log --color -p amber.bib*
then search keyword amber.bib by typing:* /amber.bib*
to repeat the search, press* 'n'*
(similar to vim)
tag "*-p*" will show the modified content
Hai
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Timothy J Giese <timothyjgiese.gmail.com>
wrote:
> There is a gui called "gitk" that is sometimes useful.
>
> Open gitk, then
> next to "Find",
> select "touching paths:"
> and then enter the name of the file;
> e.g., AmberTools/src/sander/multisander.F90
>
> Then the arrow buttons next to "Find" will skip up and down through
> those commits that edit that file.
>
> -Tim
>
> On 02/24/2016 12:22 PM, David A Case wrote:
> > I'm pinging git experts about what (if anything) we can do with the
> following
> > problem:
> >
> > If I cd to the amber14/doc directory and type "git log amber.bib" (in
> order
> > to find recent changes to this file), I get the following:
> >
> > commit acc59a342da64bf949ac6828b45294b275970344
> > Author: Hai Nguyen <hainm.comp.gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu Feb 4 11:02:31 2016 -0500
> >
> > Squashed commit of the following:
> >
> > commit 689f1f003ea81f51a26f4791e46ed9fa18ee8b5e
> > Merge: 8a40ed6 9c3c6ef
> > Author: Hai Nguyen <hainm.users.noreply.github.com>
> > Date: Thu Feb 4 01:50:52 2016 -0500
> >
> > Merge pull request #1136 from hainm/master
> >
> > add ref_mask for rmsd
> >
> > commit 9c3c6ef39bd1c4a45308733b54439dde4d7f3edf
> > Author: Hai Nguyen <hainm.comp.gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu Feb 4 01:40:16 2016 -0500
> >
> > fix
> >
> >
> > ...etc...etc for hundreds of commit logs, (7500 lines of text) almost
> none
> > of which actually did anything to amber.bib itself.
> >
> > I can redirect the output to a file, and use a text editor to try to find
> > what I'm looking for, but I wonder if there is not a better way. Do we
> really
> > need commits that are thousands of lines long? Is there a better way to
> > maintain a useful history? Some fancy option to the "git log" command
> that
> > alleviates this?
> >
> > ...thx...dac
> >
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