I could have sworn I used to be able to use git show to display the contents of a file from the server, but now it always says this (if I use -- then it doesn't show anything): fatal: ambiguous argument 'master:file.txt': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions What I'm trying to do is allow people to get a single file without having to clone the entirely repository, like this: ssh git.example.com "cd /MyRepo.git && git show master:File.txt" If I do this with a non-bare repository, it works. The server is running git version 1.6.3.2 (I'm running 1.6.4 locally where it works). -- 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