From: Erik de Castro Lopo Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 03:19:03 GMT Subject: Re: Retrieving a file at a before a specified commit Message-ID: <20130530131903.d699bee16aa406790ea96a12@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <20130530023446.GA19860@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King wrote: > Yes, that is what I would expect git to do in such a situation. You can > inspect it further, too: > > $ git rev-parse f51ac745^:pib/chkpib2.7 > e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 > > That's the sha1 of the blob containing the content. You can investigate > information about that object like this: > > $ git cat-file -t e69de29b > blob > $ git cat-file -s e69de29b > 0 > $ git cat-file blob e69de29b > > Of course since its size is 0, the last one is not that interesting. :) > > You could also just look at the tree, which gives similar information: > > $ git ls-tree -lr f51ac745^ | grep pib/chkpib2.7 > 100644 blob e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 0 pib/chkpib2.7 > > Hope that helps. Yes it does. Thanks! Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/