From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:49:42 GMT
Subject: Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file?
Message-ID: <81b0412b0702270449r7aced195xa0a24af78d94243a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1HM1XL-00071C-N5@candygram.thunk.org>

On 2/27/07, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> So given a particular tree-ish and a pathname, I'd like get the contents
> of that particular file as of a particular revision.  i.e., the
> equivalent of:
>
>         cvs -r v1.37 -p e2fsck/pass1.c
> or
>         bk cat -r 2345 e2fsck/pass1.c
>
> The closest I've been able to come is to use
>
>         git archive --format=zip v1.37 e2fsck/pass1.c | gunzip
>

git cat-file -p <objname>:file

I.e.: git cat-file v1.37:e2fsck/pass1.c