Git checkout multiple commits

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I am using EAGLE CAD with git for revision control. EAGLE stores its files as xml. I have different board revisions and I tag them with annotated tags so I can check out the revision whenever I want to view it.

Most users will find that a diff will be sufficient to compare two commits, but it would be much more illuminating for me to be able to open two files with EAGLE to visually compare them.

I am aware that there is some software out there for this specific application, but I just want to know how to checkout two commits of the same file into the working directory.

@jthill, please turn it into an answer as it's the only sensible thing to do (other than the contrib new-worktree script which is too heavy-weight for this simple task). — kostix
– kostix, Commented Jan 16, 2014 at 10:23

jthill · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-17 04:26:33Z

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One file:

git show $commit:path/to/file.xml > mycopy.xml

All the files, clone is built for this, it's dirt cheap:

git tag oldcommit $commit
git clone --branch oldcommit ../oldcommit
git tag -d oldcommit

answered Jan 17, 2014 at 4:26

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TheBuzzSaw · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-15 19:22:40Z

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Here is a primitive approach.

git checkout otherCommit file.xml
cp file.xml file.1.xml
git checkout anotherCommit file.xml
cp file.xml file.2.xml

answered Jan 15, 2014 at 19:22

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