From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:09:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070227190912.GA30080@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702270830260.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:38:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Everybody has already pointed out how easy this actually is, but your
> fundamental mistake was thinking that "only work on a object identifier"
> is a bad thing.
>
> Repeat after me: in git, *everything* is a SHA1 object!
>
> So the problem you had was that "only". Remove the "only", and realize
> that object identifiers will cover _all_ you ever need, and be happy.
Yeah, the problem was that in the git man pages I had read, and the
git tutorials that I had read, I had never learned about the
<tree>:<path> syntax of object identifiers. So this was more of a
documentation problem than anything else --- I did look and trawlled
through the documentation for quite a while before posting because I
didn't want to look stupid, and I still didn't find it.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-27 12:34 How do get a specific version of a particular file? Theodore Ts'o
2007-02-27 12:43 ` Christian MICHON
2007-02-27 12:44 ` Peter Baumann
2007-02-27 12:49 ` Alex Riesen
2007-02-27 12:53 ` Alex Riesen
2007-02-27 12:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-27 15:42 ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-27 19:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-27 22:39 ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-27 23:25 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-02-27 23:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-28 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 0:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-28 0:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 0:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 1:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-28 1:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 1:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-28 2:32 ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-28 2:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-28 3:03 ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-28 4:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-28 1:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-28 0:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 0:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 0:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-28 0:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-27 15:43 ` [PATCH] Fix git-show man page formatting in the EXAMPLES section Theodore Tso
2007-02-27 16:38 ` How do get a specific version of a particular file? Linus Torvalds
2007-02-27 17:14 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-27 19:09 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-02-27 19:33 ` Linus Torvalds
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