Why can't I see a deleted file from a git repository?-CodePudding

git show $(git rev-list --max-count=1 --all -- ranker/knowledge/city_province_map.py)^:ranker/knowledge/city_province_map.py

This gives me the error:

fatal: bad revision '^:ranker/knowledge/city_province_map.py'

I also tried:

git show HEAD^:ranker/knowledge/city_province_map.py

But this gives a similar error:

fatal: path 'ranker/knowledgw/city_province_map.py' does not exist in 'HEAD^'

I have a file deleted a while a ago and I want to see its content and restore it to the repository. I executed the two commands at the root directory of the git project in my local machine.

How to do that?

CodePudding user response：

If the file was deleted, you need to separate the path in show for it to work.... so:

git show $( whatever you are using to get the commit )^ -- path-to-file

CodePudding user response：

I suspect you have the format.pretty config set, which affects rev-list. You can check this of course with git config -l | grep format.pretty

From the docs for rev-list:

--pretty[=<format>]
--format=<format>
    Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format, [...]

    Note: you can specify the default pretty format in the repository configuration (see git-config(1)).

And in docs for config:

format.pretty
    The default pretty format [...]