Hi, On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On 12/14/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > - have you seen the patch for git-show today, which would include this > > > > functionality? > > > > > > I didn't. From the patch, it seems git-show can show the index via > > > ::file syntax. If so, I'd like withdraw my opinion. '::file' syntax is > > > not intuitive though. Perhaps you should mention that it can show > > > index (and how) in the git-show document > > > > Well, you can reference blobs that way, but not trees. > > Oh, yeah. Isn't this a good oppotunity to add --index option to git-show? > git-show --index will show the index. git-show --index file will show > the file content. This makes git-show a little unconsistent though as > it may or may not require argument <object>. > > Another option is treat '::' alone specially -- call git-ls-files. Hmm. I don't know... It would make the code rather messy. And are you really interested in the content stored in the index? In all cases I can think of, you are better off with a diff vs. working directory or ref. Ciao, Dscho - 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