Dario Rodriguez <soft.d4rio@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> So, how can I checkout the first version of each file? (I know that
> GIT tracks contents and not files, but the fact is that I need to keep
> track on files, it's the real thing I work with)
In general "the first version of a file" is an undefined concept if your
history has merges of parallel development, but in a narrow special case
of linear history, you should be able to do something like this:
$ git log --format='# %h %s' --diff-filter=A --raw --abbrev=40
which would give you something like
# 8d19b44 Git 1.7.7.2
:000000 100644 0000000... e6bbef2... A Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt
# 0f77dea mingw: move poll out of sys-folder
:000000 100644 0000000... 708a6c9... A compat/win32/poll.c
:000000 100644 0000000... b7aa59d... A compat/win32/poll.h
# 8f41c07 read-cache.c: fix index memory allocation
:000000 100755 0000000... bca359d... A t/t7511-status-index.sh
...
so that you know what blobs to check out to which path. E.g.
$ mkdir -p compat/win32; git cat-file blob 708a6c9... >compat/win32/poll.c
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