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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Contents of file for a commit
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Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
> How can I do the equivalent of 'cvs co -r <commit> -p <file>' in git?
> I want to see the entire contents of a file as it existed after a
> particular commit was introduced.

`git checkout $commit -- $path`

would get the file at that version into your working directory,
but also will update the index, thus staging the file for the
next commit.

You can also just view the file if you don't want those changes
to be made:

`git show $commit -- $path`

If you are scripting, use cat-file directly to avoid any CRLF
conversion or whatnot:

`git cat-file blob $commit:$path`

-- 
Shawn.