Re: Get a copy of an old version of a file, using git gui/gitk

Using gitk, you can branch at the change that has the file (and content, I am not using version as git does not version files) you want. Check out that branch and you will have that file (and all other files at that changeset). When you are done, you can just delete that branch... branching is _cheap_

-dhruva



----- Original Message ----

From: Björn Steinbrink <redacted>
To: Peter Krefting <redacted>
Cc: Git Mailing List <redacted>
Sent: Friday, 19 September, 2008 1:50:47 PM
Subject: Re: Get a copy of an old version of a file, using git gui/gitk

On 2008.09.19 08:58:04 +0100, Peter Krefting wrote:

quoted

From the command line, I would try to find the SHA-1 and use git
cat-file, but I can't figure out how to do it from the GUIs. Or, to
fall back to the command-line, how to get the SHA-1 for the object out
of git gui/gitk.

You don't need the sha1 of the blob object, just the revision and the
filename, and then you can reference the blob using the
:syntax.

For example:
    git cat-file blob HEAD^^^:some/file.c
or less plumb-ish:
    git show HEAD^^^:some/file.c

I've been told that neither cares about the CRLF conversion, and I don't
know if there's anything except "git checkout" that actually does care
about it. With checkout, you would do:

git checkout HEAD^^^ -- some/file.c

But that replaces the current version of that file in your working tree
and index with the version from the HEAD^^^ revision, so that might not
be exactly what you were looking for.

Björn
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