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From: Jerome Lovy <t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting a file revision
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:38:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C97D26.9090102@brefemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vir7ccpmj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Bahadir Balban" <bahadir.balban@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> This might sound like a novice question but anyway: I sometimes have a
>> need to quickly recover an old revision of a file just to check
>> something or copy some code from it.
> 
> $ git show -p $commit:$path >$path.old-version
Is "-p" a short version of "--pretty" ?

(I do not see it documented in the man-page and assume it is not the 
"-p" applicable to git-diff-tree, is it ?)

Thanks,
Jérôme

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-20 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-19  0:42 Getting a file revision Bahadir Balban
2007-08-19  0:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-20 11:38   ` Jerome Lovy [this message]
2007-08-21 12:49     ` [PATCH] Document the -p option for git-show Miklos Vajna
2007-08-21 13:09       ` Johannes Sixt
2007-08-21 14:29         ` VMiklos
2007-08-21 15:02         ` David Kastrup
2007-08-21 17:01       ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-08-21 17:33         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-21 18:50           ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-08-19  0:52 ` Getting a file revision J. Bruce Fields

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