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Given object file in Git, determine its path, or at least, its contents

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I have a brand new, large file in my repository. I know that its object file is:

.git/objects/87266d373359958e4fa9b51808ae076db9303923

I would like to determine the path name it has (and in which commit). I would also like to be able to extract its file contents (somewhat like "git show" would do if I knew its path name).

I'm sure that there are Git commands to do both of these, but with Git manual pages, there's no way to find the command unless I already know its name.

posted May 16, 2013 by anonymous

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To check the file content, you can use git cat-file -p 87266d373359958e4fa9b51808ae076db9303923

answer May 16, 2013 by anonymous
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