How to extract one file with commit history from a Git repo with index-filter & co?

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A faster and easier-to-understand filter that accomplishes the same thing:

git filter-branch --index-filter '
                        git read-tree --empty
                        git reset $GIT_COMMIT -- $your $files $here
                ' \
        -- --all -- $your $files $here

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