Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes: > Not necessarily, especially when pathspec is given like the original post, > i.e. "git diff $tree_ish -- $path". We would need to open tree objects > that lead to the leaf of the $path and a blob, but other objects won't be > needed. And git show branch:path already has that code. -- 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