From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:50:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Command-line interface thoughts
Message-ID: <20110613185052.GD17845@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4o3xwe5z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:48:56PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >   git show INDEX:OURS:Makefile
> >
> > which is identical to what I wrote above, but is perhaps easier to
> > explain.
> 
> Why does anybody even want to say :2:Makefile to begin with?
> [...]
> I do not think whoever brought that "you can look at individual stages
> with :$n:$path" to this discussion was thinking straight. Yes, it is
> something you _could_ do, I've never found that particularly _useful_
> unless I was debugging git itself.

I think it may have been me, and I was bringing it up for completeness
in discussion of the new tokens. I don't actually use that concept very
often at all, so it can just be dropped from this discussion.

-Peff