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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: metastore
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 01:52:13 +0100 (BST)
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Cc: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>,
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Hi,

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:

> in the discussion a few weeks ago I was told that there is a way to look 
> at the contents of a file that hasn't been checked out yet (somehow it 
> exists in a useable form 'in the index') but when I asked for 
> information about how to do this I never got a response.

git show :<filename>

(Note the ":")

Hth,
Dscho