Git: whole file to stdout

Question

Is there a command that can take a ref and a file path, and output the full contents of the file as it was at that commit to STDOUT?

Eg. Something like this:

git show-me-the-file HEAD~2 some/file | do_something_with_piped_output_here

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11007552/git-whole-file-to-stdout

Answer 1

git show

e.g.

git show HEAD:./<path_to_file>