Git See Older Version of File

Here's a quick way to see the older version of a file in Git:

git show HEAD~4:pathto/file

Where "4" represents the number of versions to go back in HEAD.

See the following references for more details and variations:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/338436/is-there-a-quick-git-command-to-see-an-old-version-of-a-file
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/610208/how-to-retrieve-a-single-file-from-specific-revision-in-git