Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file?

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20070227190912.GA30080@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702270830260.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:38:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Everybody has already pointed out how easy this actually is, but your 
> fundamental mistake was thinking that "only work on a object identifier" 
> is a bad thing.
> 
> Repeat after me: in git, *everything* is a SHA1 object!
> 
> So the problem you had was that "only". Remove the "only", and realize 
> that object identifiers will cover _all_ you ever need, and be happy.

Yeah, the problem was that in the git man pages I had read, and the git tutorials that I had read, I had never learned about the <tree>:<path> syntax of object identifiers. So this was more of a documentation problem than anything else --- I did look and trawlled through the documentation for quite a while before posting because I didn't want to look stupid, and I still didn't find it.

						- Ted