From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Chunlin Zhang <zhangchunlin@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Subject: Re: How to git checkout a orgin(unstage) version file in another directoy?
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:34:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110217103431.GA8308@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110217T074533-358@post.gmane.org>
Chunlin Zhang wrote:
> I am writing a script for git-gui's "Tools" menu to diff a file.
> I want to checkout an origin file in a tmp directory and use the diff tool.
Because you are writing a script, I'd suggest using one of the
"low-level commands (plumbing)" listed in git(1). Because you are
retrieving a file, it would be one of the "interrogation commands".
And because it is a single file, I suppose this should be git
cat-file, git unpack-file, or git archive.
For example,
git cat-file blob HEAD:README
will print the contents of README in the HEAD commit.
Because I am curious: what exactly would your script be used to do?
Can the git diff-tree or git diff-files command help?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-17 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-17 7:00 How to git checkout a orgin(unstage) version file in another directoy? Chunlin Zhang
2011-02-17 8:26 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-17 10:03 ` Chunlin Zhang
2011-02-17 10:17 ` Chunlin Zhang
2011-02-17 12:35 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-17 13:30 ` Chunlin Zhang
2011-02-17 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-18 7:41 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-17 10:34 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-02-17 12:06 ` Chunlin Zhang
2011-02-17 17:17 ` Andreas Schwab
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