Better Git: Interact With a Branch, Without Checking it Out.

Tricks for interacting with a branch, without checking it out.

Browse a directory (like ls): Syntax: git show [ref]:[path]

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> git show master:your/path/

See contents of a file (command as above): Syntax: git show [ref]:[filepath]

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> git show master:your/path/file.php

Checkout a specific file or directory from a different branch: Syntax: git checkout [ref] – [path]

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> git checkout master -- your/path/file.php

Note: There are other ways to do similar tasks such as git ls-tree and they may have more options. However I find these to be more accessible and easy to remember Someone asked me today how to use WP_Query to get posts by a relative date. The codex provides an example on how to achieve this. Heres what is shown on the codex.