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From: "Bahadir Balban" <bahadir.balban@gmail.com>
Subject: Getting a file revision
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:42:30 +0100
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Hi,

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. I would imagine having a command
like:

git-getrev <filename> <commit> or something, and the file would appear
in its path, or the git root directory as <filename>.<commit>

Is there an existing way to achieve a similar result? I can certainly
checkout a branch, revert to that commit I want, copy the file, and
come back to HEAD, but its not as quick.

Thanks,
Bahadir