Re: Getting a file revision

From: Jerome Lovy <t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com>
Date: Aug 20, 2007, 11:38 UTC
Message-ID: <46C97D26.9090102@brefemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vir7ccpmj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Bahadir Balban" <bahadir.balban@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> $ git show -p $commit:$path >$path.old-version

Is "-p" a short version of "--pretty" ?

(I do not see it documented in the man-page and assume it is not the "-p" applicable to git-diff-tree, is it ?)

Thanks, Jérôme