From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 18:01:23 GMT
Subject: Re: How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to stdout?
Message-ID: <20211008180123.ls62virahqthgpmb@meerkat.local>
In-Reply-To: <YWCFFcNeNVTYcELN@ACM>

On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 05:51:17PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> 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