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Re: How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to stdout?

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Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
Oct 8, 2021, 18:01 UTC
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 05:51:17PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
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> Hello, git.
> 
> I want to get a file's content from a particular revision onto stdout for
> backup purposes.  I can't see how to do this.  Help me, please!
> 
> Let's say the file is foo.c, and I want to get the version from the head
> revision of bar-branch.
git show bar-branch:foo.c
-K
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