Andy Parkins wrote: > On Wednesday 2006 December 13 22:56, Shawn Pearce wrote: > >> git cat-file -p $REV:$file >> >> not sure how much easier it gets than that. Load in the bash >> completion from contrib/completion and you can even tab complete >> the $file part. > > Yes. I was a little unfair on that one; I forgot about the REV:file syntax. > However, it's still not simple for a new user; I think I'd say "draw" if > the "-p" weren't a requirement. $ git repo-config alias.less "-p cat-file -p" $ git repo-config alias.cat "cat-file -p" remedies that. [...] >> How is it unfriendly? What specifically would you change to make >> it more friendly? > > $ git-ls-tree v1.0.0 > 100644 blob 906e98492080d2fde9467a9970fc92d7a8cfeaf8 Makefile > > I'm a newbie: what's that number at the front? What's a blob? What's that > great big number - I've only seen commit hashes that look like that, and that > isn't one. Definitely not friendly. The number in front is octal mode of a file or directory. "blob" is a file (or symbolic link), "tree" is a directory, all of this can be found in git(7). The "great big number" is blob hash. All objects are identified and referenced by SHA-1 hash of its contents: be it commits, blobs (contents of a file), trees (content of a directory), tags. You can always use --abbrev option to have it shortened. > $ svn list -r 14 > Makefile > > It could probably be fixed by making git-ls-files capable of understanding > tree-ish. Perhaps we should add git-ls which would be porcelain frontend to git-ls-files and git-ls-tree, just like git-diff is frontend to git-diff-files, git-diff-index and git-diff-tree (and also does pure blob diff). "svn list -r 14" equivalent is "git ls-tree --name-only v1.0.0". You can always do $ git repo-config alias.list "ls-tree --name-only" (or use --name-status instead of --name-only). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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