如何查看提交之间已删除的更改

Question

I am using a repository for a tex files. By using wrong software I have now inconsistent files.

My question is how to see deleted changes between commits. I have narrowed the problem down to about 30 commits in 3 branches. Between those I would like to see the changes to all files in all lines. Especially those lines were added but later disappeared.

Sadly I have whole paragraph in one line, so I may need the word comparison instead of line as well.

Let say I have commits:

• Comm5

• Comm4

• Comm3
• Comm2
• Comm1

and I want to see the added lines between Comm1 and Comm5 that has not existed in Comm1 and no longer exist in Comm5

I am ok, with the result where I would have all lines duplicated and I would have to manually correct them, I just don't want to miss anything.

Any Advice?

Answer 1

Assuming the commits are contiguous, git log 's --patch option can be useful here:

git log --patch commit1 commit5

will show commit messages alongside diffs for each commit.

Alternatively, it might be better to constrain by file instead of by commit:

git log --patch -- my-file.tex