From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:52:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Extracting a single commit or object
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901011747580.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <21223948.post@talk.nabble.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, yitzhakbg wrote:

> How would I extract a single commit from a repository by it's SHA1 (or 
> any other treeish)?

Your question is not precise enough to answer.  Are you looking for

- the commit message?
- the patch?
- all the files referenced by that commit?
- all the files _and revisions_ referenced by that commit?

The answer depends quite a lot on the question...

> For that matter, how is any one single object extracted? Examples please.

The user-friendly way to look at a tree is

	git show HEAD:Documentation/

or some such.  Likewise, you can inspect single blobs like this:

	git show HEAD:README

If you activated bash completion, you can even complete monsters like 
this:

	git show \
v1.5.3:v1.5.3:t/t4013/diff.diff-tree_--cc_--patch-with-stat_--summary_master

Hth,
Dscho