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

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:54:51 -0700

Jeff King <[email-masked]> 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.