Viewing a Deleted File in Git

Question

I've deleted a file with Git and then committed, so the file is no longer in my working copy. I want to look at the contents of that file, but not actually restore it. How can I do this?

Answer 1

git show HEAD^:path/to/file

您可以使用显式提交标识符或HEAD~n来查看旧版本，或者如果您删除它以后已经有多个提交。

Answer 2

If this is a file you've deleted a while back and don't want to hunt for a revision , you can use (the file is named foo in this example; you can use a full path):

git show $(git rev-list --max-count=1 --all -- foo)^:foo

The rev-list invocation looks for all the revisions of foo but only lists one. Since rev-list lists in reverse chronological order, then what it lists is the last revision that changed foo , which would be the commit that deleted foo . (This is based on the assumption that git does not allow a deleted file to be changed and yet remain deleted.) You cannot just use the revision that rev-list returns as-is because foo no longer exists there. You have to ask for the one just before it which contains the last revision of the file, hence the ^ in git show .

Answer 3

由于你可能不记得确切的路径，你可以从git log获取sha1然后你可以简单地发出

 git cat-file -p <sha1>