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

From: Chunlin Zhang <zhangchunlin@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 17, 2011, 12:06 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20110217T130405-970@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110217103431.GA8308@elie>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> Chunlin Zhang wrote:
> Because you are writing a script, I'd suggest using one of the
> "low-level commands (plumbing)" listed in git(1).  Because you are
> retrieving a file, it would be one of the "interrogation commands".
> And because it is a single file, I suppose this should be git
> cat-file, git unpack-file, or git archive.
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> For example,
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> 	git cat-file blob HEAD:README

Wow,this solved my problem perfectly. use this command for example: git --work-tree=. --git-dir="/media/linux/t/kernel/.git" cat-file blob HEAD:Android.mk>Android.mk

Thanks !

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> will print the contents of README in the HEAD commit.
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> Because I am curious: what exactly would your script be used to do?
> Can the git diff-tree or git diff-files command help?
>