From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 21:54:51 GMT
Subject: Re: How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to stdout?
Message-ID: <xmqqtuhri3mc.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YWCj6NqMrxksN1V8@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>   git cat-file -p bar-branch:foo.c
>
> (the "-p" is "pretty-print based on the object's type", so the two are
> equivalent).

IIRC, "cat-file -p" doesn't do textconv, but "show" would, and
depending on the use case the difference may matter.