Re: comparing code on different branches

[Tino Calancha]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, John Wiegley wrote:

> > > > > > "JH" == Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden> writes:
>
> JH> Now, when I test my code modifications, I do eval-buffer etc. But what if
> JH> I also want to test what master does to compare the results?
>
> JH> Do I have to go through a stash/checkout/test/checkout stash apply cycle?
>
> If it's just one file, you can use C-x v ~ master RET to open master's version
> in another buffer, and then eval-buffer there to compare.
Nice tip! Thanks.
I used to go to the shell for that (less convenient):
M-! git show version:path RET
M-x rename-buffer blah RET