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Subject: Re: Feature request: relative paths
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:46:07 +0200
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Cc: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
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On 2010.05.06 03:31:13 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote:
>=20
> > An svn feature that I used a lot is `svn cat some-file' -- and with
> > git I can get close to that with `git show :some-file'
>=20
> git show -- some-file

That's the same as "git show HEAD -- some-file" though, which shows a
commit with path-limited diff output. While ":some-file" (most likely)
identifies a blob, so "git show :some-file" shows the contents stored i=
n
that blob.

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