On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:48:56PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > git show INDEX:OURS:Makefile > > > > which is identical to what I wrote above, but is perhaps easier to > > explain. > > Why does anybody even want to say :2:Makefile to begin with? > [...] > I do not think whoever brought that "you can look at individual stages > with :$n:$path" to this discussion was thinking straight. Yes, it is > something you _could_ do, I've never found that particularly _useful_ > unless I was debugging git itself. I think it may have been me, and I was bringing it up for completeness in discussion of the new tokens. I don't actually use that concept very often at all, so it can just be dropped from this discussion. -Peff -- 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