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Today, the Search History view only allows diffing two revisions that belong to the same file. This doesn't cover the case, when one needs to diff revisions of different files. One common use case is having a file with several revisions under the CVS control, renaming the file, modifying and committing it several times: essentially, this is the same file and the desire to diff its newer revision to an older one is completely sane.