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From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: wierd git show syntax
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:02:12 +1030
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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