I remember this working for me in the not too distant past. I'm using git version 1.6.1.3. Perhaps it was an older version of git when it worked for me. quadra% ls -l src/c/sock.c -rw-r--r-- 1 layer fi 57909 Mar 9 13:32 src/c/sock.c quadra% git show :2:src/c/sock.c fatal: ambiguous argument ':2:src/c/sock.c': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions quadra% git show :1:c/sock.c fatal: ambiguous argument ':1:c/sock.c': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions quadra% git show :1:sock.c fatal: ambiguous argument ':1:sock.c': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions quadra% git show :1:/src/c/sock.c fatal: ambiguous argument ':1:/src/c/sock.c': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions If I cd to "src/c" and do "git show :1:sock.c" the same thing happens. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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