From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:57:18 GMT Subject: Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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