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Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-git-20080606@schottelius.org> writes:

> Very nice syntax, somehow guessed that this is available, but didn't
> try... my fault. 
>
> Perhaps we should reference git-rev-list(1) from git-diff(1), too?

This is just the standard syntax to name blob _anywhere_, so we should not
hide it in git-rev-list(1) but somewhere people would read before reading
any "technical manual" material, perhaps in the tutorial and git(1).