Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-show.txt | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt
index 48b612e..2a014cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
git show next~10:Documentation/README::
Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
- `next`.
+ `next`. *Note:* the 'object' path must always be relative to git
+ project root. This wouldn't have worked:
+
+ $ cd Documentation
+ $ git show next~10:README
git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile::
Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
--
1.5.6.5
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