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From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] git-show.txt: mention that object path must be relative in EXAMPLES.
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:16:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlgxzydw.fsf@jondo.cante.net> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
---
 Documentation/git-show.txt |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt
index 48b612e..2a014cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
 git show next~10:Documentation/README::
 	Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
 	they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
-	`next`.
+	`next`. *Note:* the 'object' path must always be relative to git
+	project root. This wouldn't have worked:
+
+	$ cd Documentation
+	$ git show next~10:README
 
 git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile::
 	Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
-- 
1.5.6.5

             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-07 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-07 22:16 Jari Aalto [this message]
2009-02-07 23:31 ` [PATCH] git-show.txt: mention that object path must be relative in EXAMPLES Jakub Narebski
2009-02-08  4:59   ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-02-08  7:52     ` Jari Aalto
2009-02-08  8:47       ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

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