From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 08:46:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature request: relative paths
Message-ID: <20100506084607.GA9921@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <20100506083113.GA25993@progeny.tock>

On 2010.05.06 03:31:13 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote:
> 
> > An svn feature that I used a lot is `svn cat some-file' -- and with
> > git I can get close to that with `git show :some-file'
> 
> git show -- some-file

That's the same as "git show HEAD -- some-file" though, which shows a
commit with path-limited diff output. While ":some-file" (most likely)
identifies a blob, so "git show :some-file" shows the contents stored in
that blob.

Björn