How to get files and content by SHA of commit

Question

How to list files that are changed in specific commit and get content of that files when I have sha number of commit ?

The first part is a possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/q/424071/223092 and the second part is a possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/q/610208/223092 (probably among many others) — Mark Longair, Oct 07 '11 at 09:46

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

To list the files that were changed by a particular commit, you can do:

git show --name-only <commit>

If you want to suppress the log message from that output, you can add --pretty=format: to the options.

As for your second question, to see the content of a particular file from that commit, say with SHA1sum f414f31, you can do:

git show f414f31:Documentation/help.txt

... where the path Documentation/help.txt is relative to the top level of the working tree, regardless of whether you're in a subdirectory or not. If you need to extract a whole subdirectory, have a look at this question and answer:

What's the best way to extract a tree from a git repository?

How to get files and content by SHA of commit

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