Open any file (by path) that exists in specific branch/ref

[mogelbrod]

Hi!
Similarly to the issue Quickly show current file on other branch #646 I'm used to work in vim using the fugitive plugin to, amongst other things, easily open up a specific file in a specific branch using :Gedit {ref}:{filePath}. I'm guessing that this command is basically a proxy of the git show {ref}:{filePath} git command. The closest I've come with Gitlens is to use the gitlens.openFileRevisionFrom/gitlens.openRevisionFile commands, but they only seem to work with the active file and therefore appear unusable when one wants to open a file that doesn't currently exist in the working directory.

Ideally there would be a command that first lets the user pick a branch/ref and then show a quickpick window with all files in the repository for that given ref (to allow for autocompletion/fuzzy matching). Upon selection it would then open the corresponding version of that file.

If there's interest for this from the maintainers I'd be happy to look into implementing a proof of concept.

Thanks in advance!

[mogelbrod]

Found a similar issue after some extensive searching: #708

[eamodio]

@mogelbrod I'm going to close this as a duplicate of #708 and agree this would be a useful feature

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