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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