Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: > >> +Finally, most commands that take filenames will optionally allow you >> +to precede any filename by a commit, to specify a particular version >> +fo the file: >> + >> +------------------------------------- >> +$ git diff v2.5:Makefile HEAD:Makefile.in >> +------------------------------------- > > Why not mention also :<stage>:<filename>, or would <stage> be not defined in > this place of tutorial? I do not think being able to do diff with arbitrary stage is often used in practice. By definition, you would want to do diff with a stage during a conflicted merge, and most of the time the default combined diff without any colon form should give you the most useful results. Also, ":<path>" to mean the entry in the index is often equivalent to "git diff --cached". IOW, these are obscure special purpose notation, and I do not think tutorial is a good place to cover them. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html