Re: How do I get the file contents from an arbitrary revision to stdout?

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

-K