👩💻 Join our community of thousands of amazing developers!
Sometimes I need to pull a complete copy of a previous file out of a github (this is useful when needing to do visual binary diffs to see which bytes have moves or changed). To pull a specific file, say the last commit, the following command line does the trick: git show HEAD^:./myfile.bin > myfile.bin The HEAD^ means "one commit behind the head of the branch" (the "head" being the last commit on the branch). Though if you've got merge commits where a commit has more than one parent commit this...