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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Extracting a single commit or object
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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.