On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:38:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Everybody has already pointed out how easy this actually is, but your > fundamental mistake was thinking that "only work on a object identifier" > is a bad thing. > > Repeat after me: in git, *everything* is a SHA1 object! > > So the problem you had was that "only". Remove the "only", and realize > that object identifiers will cover _all_ you ever need, and be happy. Yeah, the problem was that in the git man pages I had read, and the git tutorials that I had read, I had never learned about the <tree>:<path> syntax of object identifiers. So this was more of a documentation problem than anything else --- I did look and trawlled through the documentation for quite a while before posting because I didn't want to look stupid, and I still didn't find it. - Ted - 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