Hi, On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Matthias Kestenholz wrote: > [13:49] mk@crap ~/Projects/git > git diff HEAD:git.c ~/bin/viname|head > diff --git a/home/mk/bin/viname b/home/mk/bin/viname This is intended behaviour. You don't want a Git object name as a file specifier, because you cannot edit a Git object. Hth, 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