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

From: John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com>
Date: Aug 9, 2005, 21:59 UTC
Message-ID: <ddb8vl$ifq$1@sea.gmane.org>

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`
	TMP=`git-unpack-file $ID`
	cat $TMP
	rm $TMP

but its really ugly!   It must be easier than this?

John

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