Re: Getting a file revision

> This might sound like a novice question but anyway: I sometimes have a
> need to quickly recover an old revision of a file just to check
> something or copy some code from it. I would imagine having a command
> like:
> 
> git-getrev <filename> <commit> or something, and the file would appear
> in its path, or the git root directory as <filename>.<commit>
> 
> Is there an existing way to achieve a similar result? I can certainly
> checkout a branch, revert to that commit I want, copy the file, and
> come back to HEAD, but its not as quick.