From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to stdout?
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 14:01:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211008180123.ls62virahqthgpmb@meerkat.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YWCFFcNeNVTYcELN@ACM>
On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 05:51:17PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, git.
>
> I want to get a file's content from a particular revision onto stdout for
> backup purposes. I can't see how to do this. Help me, please!
>
> Let's say the file is foo.c, and I want to get the version from the head
> revision of bar-branch.
git show bar-branch:foo.c
-K
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-08 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-08 17:51 How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to stdout? Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-08 18:01 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2021-10-08 18:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-08 20:02 ` Jeff King
2021-10-08 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-08 23:01 ` Jeff King
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