Dimitar Bonev wrote: > @ThomasRast: 'git show HEAD:targetfile > targetfile' was proposed in > the both links that I provided in the email that your replied to, but > this introduces external dependency to the command interpreter to > output the file unmodified but not every interpreter does this. > PowerShell in particular modifies the encoding of the file That would suggest that "git show" (along with similar commands like "git diff") should learn an --output= option to avoid its output being corrupted. It doesn't leave me very happy. Is there no way to convince PowerShell to treat the output of a command as binary data with no particular encoding? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html