On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 5:40 AM, j. v. d. hoff <veedeeh...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> hi,
>
> I found this statement in the `technical overview' section:
>
> 8<----------------------------**------------------------------**
> -----------------------
> When accessing the repository database using raw SQL and the fossil sql
> command, the extension function "content()" with a single argument which is
> the SHA1 hash of an artifact will return the complete undeleted and
> uncompressed content of that artifact.
> 8<----------------------------**------------------------------**
> -----------------------
>
> since I don't know anything about `sql',I don't understand, how to use
> this. could someone please explain what to do, exactly, in order to dump
> the content of revision [1234] to stdout (i.e. achieve the functionality
> of, e.g., `hg cat -r 1234 some_file.txt')?
>
>
Probably you are looking for: "fossil artifact"...

$ fossil artifact --help
Usage: fossil artifact ARTIFACT-ID ?OUTPUT-FILENAME? ?OPTIONS?

Extract an artifact by its SHA1 hash and write the results on
standard output, or if the optional 4th argument is given, in
the named output file.

Options:
   -R|--repository FILE       Extract artifacts from repository FILE

See also: finfo


Regards,

-- 
Martin G.
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