Subject: Re: Getting a file revision

From: Jerome Lovy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:38:14 +0200

Hi,

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Bahadir Balban" <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> This might sound like a novice question but anyway: I sometimes have a
>> need to quickly recover an old revision of a file just to check
>> something or copy some code from it.
> 
> $ git show -p $commit:$path >$path.old-version
Is "-p" a short version of "--pretty" ?

(I do not see it documented in the man-page and assume it is not the 
"-p" applicable to git-diff-tree, is it ?)

Thanks,
Jérôme