Retrieve old version of a file without changing working copy parent

Question

How do you get a copy of an earlier revision of a file in Mercurial without making that the new default working copy of the file in your workspace?

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Answer 1

The command you use is this:

hg cat -r 10 myfile.pls > C:\temp\dump\myfile_revision10.pls

Knowing a bit of Unix helps with Mercurial commands. Perhaps cat should have a built in alias print or something similar.