From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to stdout?
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 18:15:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YWCKpH5ER1Z9Xm3E@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211008180123.ls62virahqthgpmb@meerkat.local>
Hello, Konstantin.
On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 14:01:23 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 05:51:17PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hello, git.
> >
> > I want to get a file's content from a particular revision onto stdout for
> > backup purposes. I can't see how to do this. Help me, please!
> >
> > Let's say the file is foo.c, and I want to get the version from the head
> > revision of bar-branch.
> git show bar-branch:foo.c
Thank you indeed. That works just right!
> -K
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-08 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-08 17:51 How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to stdout? Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-08 18:01 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-10-08 18:15 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2021-10-08 20:02 ` Jeff King
2021-10-08 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-08 23:01 ` Jeff King
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