NAME 

git-unpack-file - Creates a temporary file with a blob's contents

SYNOPSIS 

git-unpack-file <blob>

DESCRIPTION 

Creates a file holding the contents of the blob specified by sha1. It returns the name of the temporary file in the following format: .merge_file_XXXXX

OPTIONS 

<blob>
Must be a blob id

AUTHOR 

Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

DOCUMENTATION 

Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

GIT 

Part of the (7) suite