Although the rev-parse documentation claims that the tree-ish:path/to/file syntax is applicable to all tree-ish forms this is not so when using the :/ "oneline prefix" syntax introduced in v1.5.0.1-227-g28a4d94. This patch allows git show ":/PATCH: allow":sha1_name.c to show the change to the file changed by this patch. Signed-off-by: Eric Raible <raible@xxxxxxxxx> --- sha1_name.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index b0b2167..a1acfcd 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -684,6 +684,7 @@ int get_sha1_with_mode(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1, unsigned *mode) int ret, bracket_depth; int namelen = strlen(name); const char *cp; + char *copy, *colon; *mode = S_IFINVALID; ret = get_sha1_1(name, namelen, sha1); @@ -697,8 +698,18 @@ int get_sha1_with_mode(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1, unsigned *mode) int stage = 0; struct cache_entry *ce; int pos; - if (namelen > 2 && name[1] == '/') - return get_sha1_oneline(name + 2, sha1); + if (namelen > 2 && name[1] == '/') { + name += 2; + colon = strrchr(name, ':'); + if (!get_sha1_oneline(name, sha1) || !colon) + return 0; + copy = xstrdup(name); + *(colon = strrchr(copy, ':')) = '\0'; + ret = get_sha1_oneline(copy, sha1) || + get_tree_entry(sha1, colon+1, sha1, mode); + free(copy); + return ret; + } if (namelen < 3 || name[2] != ':' || name[1] < '0' || '3' < name[1]) -- 1.5.6.1.1356.g3be5f.dirty -- 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