From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:52:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting a file revision
Message-ID: <7vir7ccpmj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7ac1e90c0708181742w531dab4asc7c90835cc56e8a1@mail.gmail.com>

"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