From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: layer Subject: need help with git show :1:... Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:41:26 -0700 Message-ID: <6838.1239212486@relay.known.net> To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 08 19:51:42 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lrbvp-0004UH-O3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:51:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934609AbZDHRt3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:49:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754904AbZDHRt2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:49:28 -0400 Received: from relay.known.net ([67.121.255.169]:37571 "HELO relay.known.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754825AbZDHRt2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:49:28 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 480 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:49:27 EDT Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by relay.known.net (Allegro Maild v1.2.17) id 000000034329; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:41:26 -0700 X-Mailer: MH-E 8.1; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 22.3.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I remember this working for me in the not too distant past. I'm using git version 1.6.1.3. Perhaps it was an older version of git when it worked for me. quadra% ls -l src/c/sock.c -rw-r--r-- 1 layer fi 57909 Mar 9 13:32 src/c/sock.c quadra% git show :2:src/c/sock.c fatal: ambiguous argument ':2:src/c/sock.c': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions quadra% git show :1:c/sock.c fatal: ambiguous argument ':1:c/sock.c': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions quadra% git show :1:sock.c fatal: ambiguous argument ':1:sock.c': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions quadra% git show :1:/src/c/sock.c fatal: ambiguous argument ':1:/src/c/sock.c': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions If I cd to "src/c" and do "git show :1:sock.c" the same thing happens. Thanks.