On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 01:42:30AM +0100, Bahadir Balban wrote: > This might sound like a novice question but anyway: I sometimes have a > need to quickly recover an old revision of a file just to check > something or copy some code from it. I would imagine having a command > like: > > git-getrev <filename> <commit> or something, and the file would appear > in its path, or the git root directory as <filename>.<commit> > > Is there an existing way to achieve a similar result? I can certainly > checkout a branch, revert to that commit I want, copy the file, and > come back to HEAD, but its not as quick. Easiest is probably to use git-show together with the <commit>:<filename> syntax, so e.g.: git show v1.4:src/main.c git show 74ace5df:Makefile >Makefile.tmp --b. - 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
