Viewing A File On Another Branch

Sometimes you want to view a file on another branch (without switching branches). That is, you want to view the version of that file as it exists on that branch. git show can help. If your branch is named my_feature and the file you want to see is app/models/users.rb, then your command should look like this:

$ git show my_feature:app/models/users.rb

You can even tab-complete the filename as you type it out.

See man git-show for more details.

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