On 11/1/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I was actually reviewing the documentation of git-rev-parse and noticed that it talks about naming objects in the section called "SPECIFYING REVISIONS". The title implies that it is about committish (because we think of "revisions" as something that is used in walking commit ancestry chains), but it actually talks about naming objects of any type.
There's no way I would have known to look in git-rev-parse. My git-rev-parse man page doesn't mention the colon syntax, but now I see that part in git's gitweb; my man page must be too old. Either (1) or (2) would have been enough for me to figure out that the colon syntax would do what I wanted, but to grab the attention of the less persistent user, it would be good to mention the particular case of "git-cat-file <commit-ish>:<file>" in the git-cat-file man page. Matt - 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