On 10/17/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
So then you can do just
git cat todo:TODO
and you're done.
[ So for the non-git people, what that will actually _do_ is to show the
TODO file in the "todo" branch - regardless of whether it is checked out
or not, and start a pager for you. ]
I actually do this sometimes, but I've never done it for branches (and I
do it seldom enough that I haven't added the alias). I do it for things
like
git cat v2.6.16:Makefile
to see what a file looked like in a certain tagged release.
This very useful syntax (<ent>:<path>) didn't get documented
"officially" anywhere. It was actually documented in commit log
v1.4.1^0~255^2. Maybe someone should copy and paste it to git
documentation? Maybe core-tutorial.txt or git-rev-parse.txt, is there
any better place?
--
Duy
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