From fbee9df71959587656d3deb4d9dce512a49ee7ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Peter Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 22:04:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add "git show" section --- README.md | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7e645d71..a2167487 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -114,12 +114,20 @@ tail -f /var/log/pacman.log | bat --paging=never -l log Note that we have to switch off paging in order for this to work. We have also specified the syntax explicitly (`-l log`), as it can not be auto-detected in this case. +### `git show` + +You can combine `bat` with `git show` to view an older version of a given file with proper syntax +highlighting: +```bash +git show v0.6.0:src/main.rs | bat -l rs +``` + #### `xclip` The line numbers and Git modification markers in the output of `bat` can make it hard to copy the contents of a file. To prevent this, you can call `bat` with the `-p`/`--plain` option or simply pipe the output into `xclip`: -``` +```bash bat main.cpp | xclip ``` `bat` will detect that the output is being redirected and print the plain file contents.