How to retrieve a single file from a specific revision in Git?

Question

I have a Git repository and I\'d like to see how some files looked a few months ago. I found the revision at that date; it\'s 27cf8e84bb88e24ae4b4b3df2b77aab91a3735d8<

Answer 1

This will help you get all deleted files between commits without specifying the path, useful if there are a lot of files deleted.

git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D $commit~1 $commit | xargs git checkout $commit~1