[Toybox] Hello, I would like to carve out a project

[Terrel Shumway]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> I've been using git reasonably heavily for several years, and I _still_ find
> its user interface obnoxious and confusing and waste ten minutes looking up
> how to do something obvious that I did last week but I'm getting some subtle
> detail wrong. (And that's _after_ they rewrote it in 1.5.)

I am new to git. I never had the privilege of using the old UI :-)

> I still don't know how to do "hg cat -r 1234 filename" in git.

git show <revspec>:<path>

e.g.

git show  aafeaf731701e5:config.def.h

gIt will even pipe it through $PAGER if it's too long.  I'll admit that is not
as intuitive as hg cat. I'm not even sure how to do it as an alias. :(