From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: yitzhakbg <yitzhakbg@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Extracting a single commit or object
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:21:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081230222106.GE29071@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21223948.post@talk.nabble.com>
yitzhakbg <yitzhakbg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How would I extract a single commit from a repository by it's SHA1 (or any
> other treeish)?
> For that matter, how is any one single object extracted? Examples please.
git cat-file $type $sha1
e.g.
git cat-file commit $commitsha1
git cat-file blob $blobsha1
If you need to inspect a tree, ls-tree is probably better:
git ls-tree $commitsha1
git ls-tree $treesha1
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-30 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-30 22:15 Extracting a single commit or object yitzhakbg
2008-12-30 22:21 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-01-01 22:06 ` Alex Riesen
2009-01-01 16:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-01 18:08 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-02 17:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
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