From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Command-line interface thoughts Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:50:52 -0400 Message-ID: <20110613185052.GD17845@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <201106051311.00951.jnareb@gmail.com> <7vwrgza3i2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4DF08D30.7070603@alum.mit.edu> <20110609161832.GB25885@sigill.intra.peff.net> <4DF10ADA.5070206@alum.mit.edu> <7v8vtayhnm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110609200403.GA3955@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7v4o3xwe5z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Michael Haggerty , Scott Chacon , Jakub Narebski , Michael Nahas , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 13 20:51:02 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWCE1-0001uW-Ft for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:51:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753547Ab1FMSu4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:50:56 -0400 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:57659 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752849Ab1FMSuz (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:50:55 -0400 Received: (qmail 16311 invoked by uid 107); 13 Jun 2011 18:51:04 -0000 Received: from sigill-wired.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.8) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:51:04 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:50:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v4o3xwe5z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:48:56PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > git show INDEX:OURS:Makefile > > > > which is identical to what I wrote above, but is perhaps easier to > > explain. > > Why does anybody even want to say :2:Makefile to begin with? > [...] > I do not think whoever brought that "you can look at individual stages > with :$n:$path" to this discussion was thinking straight. Yes, it is > something you _could_ do, I've never found that particularly _useful_ > unless I was debugging git itself. I think it may have been me, and I was bringing it up for completeness in discussion of the new tokens. I don't actually use that concept very often at all, so it can just be dropped from this discussion. -Peff