Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> Robin Rosenberg wrote: >> >>> Since you can give a version and a path name to git-cat-file, >>> mention it in the man page. >> >> Very nice, with the exception that git cat-file can be used also >> for trees and commits (although hit-ls-tree and git-show are usually >> used) and for tags, not only for files. > > The point is: you are much more likely to look at a blob that at a tree. > And if you want to do that, you can always use git-ls-tree. > > But as I mentioned in another thread, I'd rather see git-show do the job > of showing blobs, too, in addition to commits as it does already. More important is that git-cat-file is used for _tags_; git-show used for tag takes tag as <commit-ish>, so it cannot show tag. -- Jakub Narebski Poland - 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