git-annex-3.20120430: doc/forum/retrieving_previous_versions/comment_1_a4e83f688d4ec9177e7bf520f12ed26d._comment
[[!comment format=mdwn
username="http://joey.kitenet.net/"
nickname="joey"
subject="comment 1"
date="2012-04-24T21:14:15Z"
content="""
To get to a specific version of a file, you need to have a tag or a branch that includes that version of the file. Check out the branch and `git annex get $file`.
(Of course, even without a tag or branch, old file versions are retained, unless dropped with `unused`/`dropunused`.
So you could even `git checkout $COMMITID`.)
"""]]