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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+Somewhere on the forums you advised that in order to revert to an old
+version of a file in a direct-mode annex, one should briefly switch to
+indirect mode and check out an earlier revision.
+
+This won’t work though if the direct-mode repo is on a VFAT
+file-system, which does not support indirect mode.
+
+If I didn’t overlook an alternative way, would it make sense to expose
+this functionality in «git annex get $file»? Like «git annex get $file
+--from $repo/$revision»?
+
+Specifying revisions to get from might also be convenient for
+alternative use-cases, I suppose.
+
+Best regards,
+T.
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+
+git-annex 5.20140421
+Linux 3.14.3