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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to stdout?
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 17:51:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YWCFFcNeNVTYcELN@ACM> (raw)

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.

I would like there to be a command something like:

    $ git cat bar-branch -- foo.c

..  Is there such a command, and if so, what's it called and how do I use
it?  I assumed it might be git cat-file, but I couldn't get it to work,
and couldn't understand it's man page.

Where might I have found this information for myself?

Thanks in advance for the help!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

             reply	other threads:[~2021-10-08 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-08 17:51 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2021-10-08 18:01 ` How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to stdout? Konstantin Ryabitsev
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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