Re: Contents of file for a commit

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 27, 2008, 05:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20080127050127.GT24004@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080127044944.GA25247@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:40:27PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> > You can also just view the file if you don't want those changes
> > to be made:
> > 
> > `git show $commit -- $path`
> 
> That doesn't work. It says "show me $commit, but limited by $path". So
> if $path was changed, you see the commit log and diff. If it wasn't, you
> see nothing.

Gah.  Indeed.  I should have suggested to Bill:

`git show $commit:$path`

sorry about the confusion, and thanks for the clarification.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.