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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: relative paths
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 04:01:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100506090132.GA26079@progeny.tock> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100506084607.GA9921@atjola.homenet>

Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2010.05.06 03:31:13 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> git show -- some-file
>
> That's the same as "git show HEAD -- some-file" though, which shows a
> commit with path-limited diff output.

Thanks for catching the thinko.

> While ":some-file" (most likely)
> identifies a blob, so "git show :some-file" shows the contents stored in
> that blob.

I suggest reviving Dscho’s :./ syntax[1].

Cheers,
Jonathan

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/68786/focus=68905

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-06  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-06  6:01 Feature request: relative paths Eli Barzilay
2010-05-06  8:31 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-06  8:46   ` Björn Steinbrink
2010-05-06  9:01     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-05-06  9:09       ` Jeff King
2010-05-06  9:04     ` Jeff King

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