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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 12:57 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702271356040.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <E1HM1XL-00071C-N5@candygram.thunk.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> 	cvs -r v1.37 -p e2fsck/pass1.c

> git-cat-file and git-show only work on a object identifier (they are 
> low-level plumbing commands).

git-show, of all, is _not_ plumbing. It is one of the foremost porcelain programs core Git ships.

git show v.37:e2fsck/pass1.c

Is probably what you want.

Ciao, Dscho

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.