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From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>, tom@dbservice.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wierd git show syntax
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:02:12 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTineQDgVUvbjR-9LvtuVVw3RX_gB=urY5Fn4K6QE@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqtyl7fovk.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> $ git show XXXX:data/path/object.c
>>
>> Gives me what I want, a cat of the objects contents. However
>> for some files I get a message about ambiguous argument telling me to
>> separate paths from revisions with '--'.
>
> This happens if data/path/object.c doesn't exist in XXXX.

Thanks Matthieu and Tom for your explanations on this. It's clearer
now ... even if my intuition failed to match the syntax!

Cheers,
Geoff

      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-04 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-30  5:02 wierd git show syntax Geoff Russell
2010-09-30  8:46 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-09-30  9:02   ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-09-30 11:32 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-10-04 22:32   ` Geoff Russell [this message]

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