Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file?

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 12:53 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0702270453ib2398a7q4b348a8677f5ac1e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0702270449r7aced195xa0a24af78d94243a@mail.gmail.com>

On 2/27/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

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> git cat-file -p <objname>:file
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> I.e.: git cat-file v1.37:e2fsck/pass1.c
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Err... With -p (for pretty).

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

This outputs just the file, not prettifying, actually.

Btw, for broken OS (and not to be named broken workarounds for the broken OS') we probably need "-o <output-file>". I forget what it was, but something used to mangle pipes on windows.