Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 24, 2009, 23:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20090424232531.GA15136@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0904241911590.2147@iabervon.org>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:21:26PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> (And, actually, I think git has a few usability warts due to relying too 
> much on command line arguments being objects; it would be quite nice if 
> "git blame 1a2b3c:Makefile" worked despite this technically being 
> incoherent.)

Yeah, I think another is that "git show master:file" will not do CRLF or other filters, and "git diff master:file other:file" will not respect diff settings. I think all of those could be solved by path lookup attaching a "here is a pathname I used to get to this object" string, which can then be accessed as appropriate.

It is not all that different conceptually than what "git rev-list --objects" does.

-Peff

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