How do I fetch a specific version of file to /tmp with git in linux?

Question

That is, I don't want to replace the work space,

but fetch a older version of file to /tmp?

Is that possible ?

Answer 1

git show $commitid:$filename > /tmp/$filename

Writes version $commitid of file $filename to /tmp/$filename.

Answer 2

• You can't extract single file from remote repo
• You can use git-archive in order to get minimail possible part or tree for needed changeset and remove unwanted files
• You can git checkout cs in order to return to changeset, copy file out of tree and return back to HEAD git checkout

git man is your best friend