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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [RFD/BUG?] git show with tree/commit
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:34:21 -0400
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 05:33:33PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> $ git show cab2cdadfda8e8e8631026443b11d3ed6e7ba517:
> tree cab2cdadfda8e8e8631026443b11d3ed6e7ba517:
> 
> .gitattributes
> .gitignore
> .mailmap
> ...

As Junio pointed out, the colon here is not syntactic, but from the
original object name you gave it. But here...

> $ git show 04050d37b1676ba8da277be1902513049b45413a:
> tree 04050d37b1676ba8da277be1902513049b45413a
> 
> .gitattributes
> .gitignore
> .mailmap
> ...

...it is missing. Did you mean to omit it from the command-line?

-Peff