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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Cherry-pick particular object
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:37:44 -0500
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S?bastien Pierre <sebastien@xprima.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a newbie question.
> 
> I recently wanted to "cherry" pick a particular file from my
> git-managed project history. Using gitk, I identified which was
> the revision I wanted (95ba0c74e03874e8c1721b91f92f161e9061621f),
> and then using git ls-tree, I managed to get the id of the file I
> wanted (78132af26431e649a0f85f22dc27e5787d80700f).
> 
> Now, what I simply wanted was to do something like:
> 
> "get the file corresponding to
> 78132af26431e649a0f85f22dc27e5787d80700f and save it as myfile.txt"
> 
> How would one properly do that with core git ?

git cat-file blob 78132af26431e649a0f85f22dc27e5787d80700f >myfile.txt

-- 
Shawn.