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21 questions linked to/from How can I view an old version of a file with Git?
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Git extract commits as separate files [duplicate]
I have a git repo with one file which has new commits added almost daily.
I would like to extract copies of the file as it looked at every commit to a new directory.
Ideally the files would be date-...
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Is there any way to find out what an entire file looked like in a particular commit? [duplicate]
Is there any way to find out what an entire file looked like in a particular commit after applying all changes to it? I know there is a difference between 2 files(what was added and removed) and that'...
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Git: How to grep code in history and show original file? [duplicate]
I'm grepping code in git history using the following command:
git grep "foo" $(git rev-list --all)
It's returning a list where each line begins with a king of hash:
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get a specific file at special commit url using git cli [duplicate]
Can I get the file url from git command line?
For example, In here, https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=history;f=src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql;hb=...
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Equivalent in git of "hg cat" or "svn cat"
I want to extract a copy of the latest version of a file held in a git repository, and pass it into a script for some processing. With svn or hg, I just use the "cat" command:
Print the specified ...
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How to get a copy of an older version of a file in a git repository?
I have a version of a .tex file from a number of commits ago that I would like to get a copy of. I have the sha1 hash value for the commit that has the version of that file that I want. I do not want ...
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git revert --no-commit without staging
Usually the command git revert automatically creates some commits with commit log messages stating which commits were reverted.
To avoid automatic commit there's the option -n (or --no-commit).
But ...
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how can I list all the different versions of a file, and diff them also?
using git, I want to list all the different revisions of a given file.
Then, I want to choose a particular version and compare it when another.
How can I do this?
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Git show's file path
Let's say I have a git repo for my stuffs inside a directory myapp:
myapp
/.git
/.gitignore
/subdirA
/subdirB
/file1.txt
/file2.txt
/(and some ...
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Does another version control system have a ClearCase-like filesystem access to file versions?
In ClearCase, if I am working on some file X and want to also see its previous version (say version 5), it is available as X@@/main/5. Is something similar available with other (preferably free) ...
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How can I get "git show" to show diffs with full context?
I am reviewing a very old commit. I want to see the changes a particular commit made but I want to see that in full context, i.e. I want to see whole file and the changes that person had made. The ...
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Is that possible to see a file in a specific commit from Github desktop locally than the difference?
In Gitlab/Github, if I use it remotely, I can download a file in a specific commit, by going to the commits and browser the repository at that commit.
If I use the Github desktop on windows with the ...
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How to recover a overwritten file on doing git pull
I have admin.html file. I modified it. I am working on master.
But before committing it, I did git pull.
There is admin.html file in BitBucket, and my (changed) admin.html file is overwritten by the ...
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Viewing previous versions of a file in git (squashed commits)
What I intend to do is similar to what's written here. I did what the top answer says, however, I realised that I had squashed my commits.
This is what my commit history looks like:
Date: <...
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Specific Git file version to specific folder
I have a Git repository and I would like to see how a file looked at a specific commit.
So to retrieve all commits of a file, I am using git log [filepath].
With git log, the application retrieves ...
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