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Subject: Re: [RFC] get_sha1(): :path and :[0-3]:path to extract from index.
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Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

>> This is a fairly straightforward patch to allow "get_sha1()" to
>> also have shorthands for blob objects in the current index.
>
> I sometimes want to have something like that:
>
> 	uzeisberger@io:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git cat-file blob v2.6.16:Makefile
>
> That is not a shortcut for objects in the current index, but for blobs
> in written trees.

That's already present in the "master".  You are responding to a
wrong message ;-).