From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:35:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document the simple way of using of git-cat-file
Message-ID: <200612140135.33745.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612140127520.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>> 
>>> Since you can give a version and a path name to git-cat-file,
>>> mention it in the man page.
>> 
>> Very nice, with the exception that git cat-file can be used also
>> for trees and commits (although hit-ls-tree and git-show are usually
>> used) and for tags, not only for files.
> 
> The point is: you are much more likely to look at a blob that at a tree. 
> And if you want to do that, you can always use git-ls-tree.
> 
> But as I mentioned in another thread, I'd rather see git-show do the job 
> of showing blobs, too, in addition to commits as it does already.

More important is that git-cat-file is used for _tags_; git-show used
for tag takes tag as <commit-ish>, so it cannot show tag.
-- 
Jakub Narebski