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Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 06:21:02PM +0000, Luciano Rocha wrote:

[...]

>> I use git checkout path ...
>> 
>> Isn't that the same thing?
>
> Yes, it does the same. Note there is unfortunately no shorthand for
> git show $arbitrary_commit:$path > $path

Isn't that what 

      git checkout $arbitrary_commit -- $path

does?