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From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Contents of file for a commit
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:31:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18332.38352.952940.201025@lisa.zopyra.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080127050127.GT24004@spearce.org>

On Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 00:01:28 (-0500) Shawn O. Pearce writes:
>Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:40:27PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> 
>> > You can also just view the file if you don't want those changes
>> > to be made:
>> > 
>> > `git show $commit -- $path`
>> 
>> That doesn't work. It says "show me $commit, but limited by $path". So
>> if $path was changed, you see the commit log and diff. If it wasn't, you
>> see nothing.
>
>Gah.  Indeed.  I should have suggested to Bill:
>
>`git show $commit:$path`
>
>sorry about the confusion, and thanks for the clarification.  :-)

Ok, looks like that works.  Thanks all.


Bill

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-27 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-27  4:22 Contents of file for a commit Bill Lear
2008-01-27  4:28 ` Jeff King
2008-01-27  4:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-27  4:49   ` Jeff King
2008-01-27  5:01     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-27 14:31       ` Bill Lear [this message]

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