Problem getting older version

Hello!

The following situation:

- The last commit was a merge, mhich broke some files
- We want three files from the commit before

Now I was told to do the following:

1. get the sha1hash from the commit before (cg-log did that)
2. get the sha1hash from the file in that tree:
[9:27] srsyg01:walderlift% git-ls-tree 35ff687efc1b19b4db918e5af859894a9dc916e4 Code/lw1/Client/MainForm.xfm 
100644 blob 605958b1435f6bdbd5cc502ae3a4c1a281d01f0a    Code/lw1/Client/MainForm.xfm

3. cat the file with git-cat-file
[9:36] srsyg01:walderlift% git-cat-file blob 605958b1435f6bdbd5cc502ae3a4c1a281d01f0a | less

4. Now overwrite it
[9:38] srsyg01:walderlift% git-cat-file blob 605958b1435f6bdbd5cc502ae3a4c1a281d01f0a > Code/lw1/Client/MainForm.xfm 

5. Goto 2 and repeat two times

Is this really the standard way to recover a file? As a developer / end user I would expect that:

cg-recover <filename> <commit id> and -f for overwriting the file if it exists

Did I overlook something or is it currently really this complicated? And it is very error prone, if I have to overwrite the files using '>'-redirection (perhaps I mistype the filename).

Nico