quoting Linus:
Well, you can just add
[alias]
cat=-p cat-file -p
to your ~/.gitconfig file, and you're there.
[ For all the non-git people here: the first "-p" is shorthand for
"--paginate", and means that git will automatically start a pager for
the output. The second "-p" is shorthand for "pretty" (there's no
long-format command line switch for it, though), and means that git
cat-file will show the result in a human-readable way, regardless of
whether it's just a text-file, or a git directory ]
So then you can do just
git cat todo:TODO
and you're done.
[ So for the non-git people, what that will actually _do_ is to show the
TODO file in the "todo" branch - regardless of whether it is checked out
or not, and start a pager for you. ]
I actually do this sometimes, but I've never done it for branches (and I
do it seldom enough that I haven't added the alias). I do it for things
like
git cat v2.6.16:Makefile
--
Christian
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