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Re: Newbie question: equiv of: cvs co -p <filename> ?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 9, 2005, 22:10 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0508100009210.10311@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, John Ellson wrote:
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> How can we cat the latest committed state of a file to stdout?
> 
> I hacked this:
> 
> 	#!/bin/bash
> 	ID=`git-ls-files -s | grep $1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
and now:
	git-cat-file blob $ID

Voila, Dscho

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  1. John EllsonAug 9, 2005
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 9, 2005
  3. Rene ScharfeAug 9, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsAug 10, 2005
  5. cg-cat [was: Re: Newbie question: equiv of: cvs co -p <filename> ? ]John Ellson, Aug 10, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisAug 11, 2005
  7. Matthias UrlichsAug 12, 2005

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