Read the tig manual a bit more after my last post
and it turns out there is a way to checkout older versions. Just put
this in your ~/.tigrc:
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| bind blob C !git checkout %(commit) -- %(file) |
That binds C in blob mode to the command to check out that version
of the file. The one downside is that it puts the file in the index
so you need to do a git reset -- FILE to take it back. That can
be avoided if you change the command to
git show %(commit):%(file) > %(file)
(assuming it can do redirects, if not the bash -c thing).
It’s not that hard to change keybindings so might start trying to tweak the config to something my brain gets better.
Also came across lazygit which looks interesting. I think this might be more useful if I stuck with one repo.
Lastly there’s this list of other history investigation tools.