Is that possible to see a file in a specific commit from Github desktop locally than the difference?-CodePudding

In Gitlab/Github, if I use it remotely, I can download a file in a specific commit, by going to the commits and browser the repository at that commit.

If I use the Github desktop on windows with the repository on my PC (not push it to the remote), I tried to see a specific commit, I only find the difference of versions. But nowhere to see the entire file at that specific commit. Is there any method for doing it?

CodePudding user response：

This is followed by desktop/desktop issue 6535 (for binary file, or any other type actually)

From 2019:

The biggest problem here is that while we can easily display the diff of changes in a repository, opening a specific version of a file is not easy - either we'd need to checkout that commit so the working directory has that version, or we extract the specific version of the file to a temporary location, which the default program can then open.

Here's a rough flow I can think of that might achieve this:

In "History" view, find a commit with an older version of the file you're interested in opening

When the user clicks to perform the action, Desktop will extract the blob from the repository to the OS temporary directory, using a pattern like {SHA}-{filename} so that we can avoid clashes if the user looks at multiple versions of a file

Once that file exists on disk, perform the existing behaviour of opening this new file in the default program

In command-line, you could use git show REVISION:path/to/file or git cat-file -p <sha1>:./file.tex > wherever.tex.

In your case:

cd /mnt/c/Users/user/Documents/GitHub/test-b
git show e39...:test-b/1.txt

Meaning: the path in git show should be the one from the root folder of the repository, not the OS full path.

The OP Redzeń confirms in the comments:

cd  test-b, 
# pwd: /mnt/c/Users/user/Documents/GitHub/test-b/test-b
git show e39...:1.txt