edit: ah. I get it. You want to use the committed version of that file. Repo content in a bare clone ordinarily never exists as a separate file, history is sent in packs. You have to ask git to show itself the contents of that committed file:
edit: ah. I get it. You want to use the committed version of that file. Repo content in a bare clone ordinarily never exists as a separate file, history is sent in packs. You have to ask git to show itself the contents of that committed file: