From: Junio C Hamano
git has a couple of alternatives, though, that you may find sufficient or even superior depending on your use. One is called "git-whatchanged" (for obvious reasons) and the other one is called "pickaxe" ("a tool for -the software archeologist").
+the software archaeologist").The "git-whatchanged" script is a truly trivial script that can give you a good overview of what has changed in a file or a directory (or an arbitrary list of files or directories). The "pickaxe" support is an @@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ that contain this changed "if" statement: