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Contents of file for a commit

From
Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date
Jan 27, 2008, 04:22 UTC
Message-ID
<18332.1826.220373.129812@lisa.zopyra.com>

How can I do the equivalent of 'cvs co -r <commit> -p <file>' in git? I want to see the entire contents of a file as it existed after a particular commit was introduced.

Bill
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