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Re: Getting a file revision

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 19, 2007, 00:52 UTC
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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
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  1. Bahadir BalbanAug 19, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2007
  3. Jerome LovyAug 20, 2007
  4. Document the -p option for git-show.Miklos Vajna, Aug 21, 2007
  5. Johannes SixtAug 21, 2007
  6. VMiklosAug 21, 2007
  7. David KastrupAug 21, 2007
  8. Robin RosenbergAug 21, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 21, 2007
  10. Robin RosenbergAug 21, 2007
  11. J. Bruce FieldsAug 19, 2007

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