# Extracting a single commit or object 6 messages from 2008-12-30 to 2009-01-02. Participants: yitzhakbg, Shawn O. Pearce, Johannes Schindelin, Miklos Vajna, Alex Riesen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16931 ## yitzhakbg, 2008-12-30 22:15 Subject: Extracting a single commit or object Message-ID: <21223948.post@talk.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/21223948.post%40talk.nabble.com ``` How would I extract a single commit from a repository by it's SHA1 (or any other treeish)? For that matter, how is any one single object extracted? Examples please. Thanks, YBG -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Extracting-a-single-commit-or-object-tp21223948p21223948.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2008-12-30 22:21 Subject: Re: Extracting a single commit or object Message-ID: <20081230222106.GE29071@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081230222106.GE29071%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: <21223948.post@talk.nabble.com> ``` yitzhakbg wrote: > > How would I extract a single commit from a repository by it's SHA1 (or any > other treeish)? > For that matter, how is any one single object extracted? Examples please. git cat-file $type $sha1 e.g. git cat-file commit $commitsha1 git cat-file blob $blobsha1 If you need to inspect a tree, ls-tree is probably better: git ls-tree $commitsha1 git ls-tree $treesha1 -- Shawn. ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2009-01-01 16:52 Subject: Re: Extracting a single commit or object Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.1.00.0901011747580.30769%40pacific.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 ``` ## Miklos Vajna, 2009-01-01 18:08 Subject: Re: Extracting a single commit or object Message-ID: <20090101180834.GJ21154@genesis.frugalware.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090101180834.GJ21154%40genesis.frugalware.org In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:52:49PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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 Wow, that's really a monster. After removing the first leading v1.5.3:, it works. (If this is a bash completion bug, I can't reproduce.) ``` ## Alex Riesen, 2009-01-01 22:06 Subject: Re: Extracting a single commit or object Message-ID: <81b0412b0901011406n13eb2fbarbed613785d9896f4@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/81b0412b0901011406n13eb2fbarbed613785d9896f4%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20081230222106.GE29071@spearce.org> ``` 2008/12/30 Shawn O. Pearce : > yitzhakbg wrote: >> >> How would I extract a single commit from a repository by it's SHA1 (or any >> other treeish)? >> For that matter, how is any one single object extracted? Examples please. > > git cat-file $type $sha1 > git cat-file -p $sha1 ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2009-01-02 17:37 Subject: Re: Extracting a single commit or object Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.1.00.0901021836430.30769%40pacific.mpi-cbg.de In-Reply-To: <20090101180834.GJ21154@genesis.frugalware.org> ``` Hi, On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:52:49PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > 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 > > Wow, that's really a monster. After removing the first leading v1.5.3:, > it works. (If this is a bash completion bug, I can't reproduce.) Heh, it's just another proof that copy-n-paste ist just error-prone. Thanks, Dscho ```