From 890072aa60912e2d85f44c0235b61726d119fb2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:30:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] posts:git:notes: add cat-file example

---
 posts/Git/notes.org | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/posts/Git/notes.org b/posts/Git/notes.org
index 9990daa..accc19d 100644
--- a/posts/Git/notes.org
+++ b/posts/Git/notes.org
@@ -1400,6 +1400,16 @@ Now merge with a particular strategy.
 There are more details about the available merge strategies in =git
 notes --help=.
 
+** Printing a file
+
+You can =cat= a file from an arbitraty revision using
+
+    : $ git cat-file blob <rev>:<path>
+
+For example,
+
+    : $ git cat-file blob master:README
+
 * Troubleshooting
 ** Git commit hangs with no output
 
-- 
2.26.2