On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:41 AM, layer <layer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Does the file have conflicts? Try $ git ls-files -s src/c/sock.c and report what the output is. If it doesn't have conflicts, but the file is tracked by git, using stage 0 should work: $ git show :0:src/c/sock.c -- 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