Re: Cherry-pick particular object

From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mar 28, 2006, 21:34 UTC
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP02B05019F52DE48793CB39AED30@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <20060328113107.20ab4c21.sebastien@xprima.com>

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:31:07 -0500 Sébastien Pierre <sebastien@xprima.com> wrote:

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> Hi all,
> 
> This is a newbie question.
> 
> I recently wanted to "cherry" pick a particular file from my 
> git-managed project history. Using gitk, I identified which was 
> the revision I wanted (95ba0c74e03874e8c1721b91f92f161e9061621f), 
> and then using git ls-tree, I managed to get the id of the file I 
> wanted (78132af26431e649a0f85f22dc27e5787d80700f).
> 
> Now, what I simply wanted was to do something like:
> 
> "get the file corresponding to 78132af26431e649a0f85f22dc27e5787d80700f 
>  and save it as myfile.txt"
> 
> How would one properly do that with core git ?

If you used:

$ git cat-file -t 78132af2643

It would tell you that this object is of type "blob". To see the contents of blobs you can do something like:

$ git cat-file blob 78132af2643

Sean