I've got some binary files (ODT files to be specific) in my Git repository and would like to find the commit that introduced a specific change. As the compare view of Eclipse doesn't help here (it shows the binary content), I would like to download and open each version in an external editor (Libre-/OpenOffice), one after another.
I could checkout each commit, but that will take much time and is sometimes not possible from within eclipse, for example because the project layout has changed in the meantime.
I know that I can use the command line, as described here:
- Is there a quick git command to see an old version of a file?
- git - getting ALL previous version of a specific file/folder
But is there any option to export a binary file from a commit from within eclipse?
In other words: What is the equivalent to git cat-file -p REVISION:PATH_TOFILE in EGit?