Re: How to view an old revision?

["Matt McCutchen" <hashproduct+git@gmail.com>]

On 11/1/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> I was actually reviewing the documentation of git-rev-parse and
> noticed that it talks about naming objects in the section called
> "SPECIFYING REVISIONS".  The title implies that it is about
> committish (because we think of "revisions" as something that is
> used in walking commit ancestry chains), but it actually talks
> about naming objects of any type.

There's no way I would have known to look in git-rev-parse.  My
git-rev-parse man page doesn't mention the colon syntax, but now I see
that part in git's gitweb; my man page must be too old.  Either (1) or
(2) would have been enough for me to figure out that the colon syntax
would do what I wanted, but to grab the attention of the less
persistent user, it would be good to mention the particular case of
"git-cat-file <commit-ish>:<file>" in the git-cat-file man page.