From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: geoffrey.russell@gmail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wierd git show syntax
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:32:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqtyl7fovk.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Zz-1dSC0imJ3NZXWcdvhXWXt-Kk94zwKe8+6Y@mail.gmail.com> (Geoff Russell's message of "Thu\, 30 Sep 2010 14\:32\:48 +0930")
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.
A common mistake is to write XXXX:relative/path when Git expects a
path relative to the tree root. Git >= 1.7 would give you a more
friendly error message in this case.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 11:36 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 [this message]
2010-10-04 22:32 ` Geoff Russell
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