From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:29:10 GMT
Subject: Re: blameview and file contents
Message-ID: <20070130072910.GB32640@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <cc723f590701292322q7365f99bg3b7c76834f6fbad8@mail.gmail.com>

Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> wrote:
> See i said that there should be a simple way. Can we get this
> documented in git-cat-file man page

Well, this isn't the git-cat-file man page, but we do suggest people
use `git show HEAD:foo.c` to get foo.c from HEAD in an interactive
setting.  The git-show manpage refers people to git-rev-parse,
which has the following:

	* A suffix ':' followed by a path; this names the blob or tree
	  at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part
	  before the colon.

In a non-interactive case, well, that's what git-cat-file is for.
And <object> typically is meant to mean what git-rev-parse will
parse... 

But if you submit a documentation update to git-cat-file's manpage
that points off to the same section of git-rev-parse, folks may
appreciate it.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.