[[!comment format=mdwn username="zardoz" ip="92.227.51.179" subject="comment 2" date="2014-05-17T14:18:31Z" content=""" It occured to me that one could do something like that by «git show earlier-commit:file > filename». A problem with this is that a subsequent «get» will get the old content, but won’t put it in place until invoking «fsck». """]]