From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Ellson Subject: Newbie question: equiv of: cvs co -p ? Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:59:14 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 10 00:03:24 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2cAT-0005bg-3u for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:01:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964988AbVHIWBu (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:01:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964993AbVHIWBu (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:01:50 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:32973 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964988AbVHIWBt (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:01:49 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E2c8e-0005NV-Uu for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0200 Received: from h-135-207-24-103.research.att.com ([135.207.24.103]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0200 Received: from ellson by h-135-207-24-103.research.att.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-135-207-24-103.research.att.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-3 (X11/20050806) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org How can we cat the latest committed state of a file to stdout? I hacked this: #!/bin/bash ID=`git-ls-files -s | grep $1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2` TMP=`git-unpack-file $ID` cat $TMP rm $TMP but its really ugly! It must be easier than this? John