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How to git checkout a orgin(unstage) version file in another directoy?

From
Chunlin Zhang <zhangchunlin@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 17, 2011, 07:00 UTC
Message-ID
<loom.20110217T074533-358@post.gmane.org>

I am writing a script for git-gui's "Tools" menu to diff a file. I want to checkout an origin file in a tmp directory and use the diff tool. Now it is ok to those unstage file,but to those staged file, I found that I do not know how to checkout the orgin(unstage) version.

In detail,I change current directory to a tmp directory,
and use for example 
'git --work-tree=. --git-dir="/media/linux/t/kernel/.git" checkout README'
 to checkout origin version.

Does anyone can help with this? I look the git help and can not find way till now.

Thanks!
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