On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> $ git show XXXX:data/path/object.c >> >> Gives me what I want, a cat of the objects contents. However >> for some files I get a message about ambiguous argument telling me to >> separate paths from revisions with '--'. > > This happens if data/path/object.c doesn't exist in XXXX. Thanks Matthieu and Tom for your explanations on this. It's clearer now ... even if my intuition failed to match the syntax! Cheers, Geoff -- 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