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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc:     Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to
 stdout?
References: <YWCFFcNeNVTYcELN@ACM> <YWCj6NqMrxksN1V8@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Date:   Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:54:51 -0700
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>   git cat-file -p bar-branch:foo.c
>
> (the "-p" is "pretty-print based on the object's type", so the two are
> equivalent).

IIRC, "cat-file -p" doesn't do textconv, but "show" would, and
depending on the use case the difference may matter.