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- [Untrack A Directory Of Files Without Deleting](git/untrack-a-directory-of-files-without-deleting.md)
- [Untrack A File Without Deleting It](git/untrack-a-file-without-deleting-it.md)
- [Verbose Commit Message](git/verbose-commit-message.md)
- [Viewing A File On Another Branch](git/viewing-a-file-on-another-branch.md)
- [What Changed?](git/what-changed.md)
- [What Is The Current Branch?](git/what-is-the-current-branch.md)
- [Whitespace Warnings](git/whitespace-warnings.md)

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# Viewing A File On Another Branch
Sometimes you want to view a file on another branch (without switching
branches). That is, you want to view the version of that file as it exists
on that branch. `git show` can help. If you branch is named `my_feature` and
the file you want to see is `app/models/users.rb`, then your command should
look like this:
```
$ git show my_feature:app/models/users.rb
```
You can even tab-complete the filename as you type it out.
See `man git-show` for more details.
[source](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7856416/view-a-file-in-a-different-git-branch-without-changing-branches)