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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: post-update script to update wc - version 2
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:43:46 +0200
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On 6/27/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 6/27/07, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:
> >> Sam Vilain wrote:
> >> >         this_tree=`git-cat-file commit $commit | awk '/^tree/ { print $2; exit }'`
> >>
> >> Of course on newer git, `git-rev-parse $commit:` will do that.
> >
> > Are you sure? Maybe you mean git-rev-parse "$commit"^{tree}?
>
> I had the same "Huh?"  moment as you had, but what Sam said is
> correct.  He is being too clever to confuse us ;-).
>
> When "$commit" is a tree-ish,
>
>         $commit:$path
>
> is the name of the tree or blob object at that $path, and as
> very strange special case, an empty $path is the whole tree.

I didn't even see the colon. That's GMail, they obviously have
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