From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 18:48:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Add porcelain command to revert a single staged file to its HEAD state while preserving its staged state
Message-ID: <20130504184857.GC25863@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <CADeMBopNestsZT4maGr3+tdOBf_Q0ukUbRCbXyucOiZZeHx6nQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dimitar Bonev wrote:

> @ThomasRast: 'git show HEAD:targetfile > targetfile' was proposed in
> the both links that I provided in the email that your replied to, but
> this introduces external dependency to the command interpreter to
> output the file unmodified but not every interpreter does this.
> PowerShell in particular modifies the encoding of the file

That would suggest that "git show" (along with similar commands like
"git diff") should learn an --output= option to avoid its output being
corrupted.  It doesn't leave me very happy.

Is there no way to convince PowerShell to treat the output of a
command as binary data with no particular encoding?