From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bfields@fieldses.org Subject: [PATCH 2/5] documentation: add brief mention of cat-file to tutorial part I Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 19:31:33 -0400 Message-ID: <1148945496592-git-send-email-bfields@fieldses.org> References: <11489454961705-git-send-email-bfields@fieldses.org> Reply-To: bfields@fieldses.org Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 30 01:33:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FkrEo-0001pI-54 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 01:33:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750716AbWE2Xd1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 19:33:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750764AbWE2Xd1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 19:33:27 -0400 Received: from zeus2.kernel.org ([204.152.191.36]:10448 "EHLO zeus2.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750716AbWE2Xd0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 19:33:26 -0400 Received: from puzzle.fieldses.org (c-68-40-201-198.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.201.198]) by zeus2.kernel.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4TNXDV8014050 for ; Mon, 29 May 2006 23:33:26 GMT Received: from bfields by puzzle.fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FkrCy-0005Kw-MM; Mon, 29 May 2006 19:31:36 -0400 To: Junio C Hamano X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.3.3.g2506 In-Reply-To: <11489454961705-git-send-email-bfields@fieldses.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.2/1499/Mon May 29 20:35:17 2006 on zeus2.kernel.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: From: J. Bruce Fields I'd rather avoid git cat-file so early on, but the git-cat-file -p old-commit:/path/to/file trick is too useful.... Also fix a nearby typo while we're at it. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields --- e47d8a459f0a2407304c9b7165b30746baa7fe29 Documentation/tutorial.txt | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) e47d8a459f0a2407304c9b7165b30746baa7fe29 diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index 5fdeab9..039a859 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -435,12 +435,18 @@ adjust gitk's fonts by holding down the Finally, most commands that take filenames will optionally allow you to precede any filename by a commit, to specify a particular version -fo the file: +of the file: ------------------------------------- $ git diff v2.5:Makefile HEAD:Makefile.in ------------------------------------- +You can also use "git cat-file -p" to see any such file: + +------------------------------------- +$ git cat-file -p v2.5:Makefile +------------------------------------- + Next Steps ---------- -- 1.3.3.gff62