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

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Feb 28, 2007, 02:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20070228023208.GC2178@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vejob9l70.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:31:47PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Back to serious my self, I am wondering if this is a sensible
> thing to ask:
> 
> 	$ git show master...maint
> 
> which your patch now forbids.

Well, the other design alternative is to make git-show take a list of objects, so that

	git show v1.5.0..v1.5.0.1

ends up displaying the same thing as

	git show `git-rev-list v1.5.0..v1.5.0.1`

... but I'm not really convinced that's really all that useful.

Also, at the moment the git-show man page states the following:

       <object>
              The name of the object to show. For a more complete list of ways
              to spell object names, see  "SPECIFYING  REVISIONS"  section  in
              git-rev-parse(1).

Note the use of singular. That would imply that it takes a single object, and not a range of objects. Of course, if the above behavior were actually shown to be useful, man pages can always be easily changed. :-)

						- Ted