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Re: Showing the version of a file that's in the Index.

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Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date
Apr 7, 2009, 20:10 UTC
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Tim Visher, 07.04.2009:
> How do you go about showing the version of the file that's in an
> index.
With version do you mean content? Then
    git cat-file -p :0:file
or
    git cat-file -p :file
See git-rev-parse(1) "Specifying revisions", the last item.
Markus
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