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Examine or Diff a file on another #git branch

At times, I'm curious about the changes that have been made for a particular file on a branch that is not the branch I'm on.

The vim-fugitive plugin provides an easy way to open a buffer for a file on another branch with the :Gedit command.

For instance:

:Gedit readme_updates:README.md

Will open a buffer with the contents of the README.md file from the readme_updates branch.

You may want to view that file in comparison to the current file. The :Gdiff command provides us with that functionality:

:Gdiff readme_updates:README.md
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