From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:34:21 GMT Subject: Re: [RFD/BUG?] git show with tree/commit Message-ID: <20160412163420.GA23462@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: <570D154D.6090006@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 05:33:33PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: > $ git show cab2cdadfda8e8e8631026443b11d3ed6e7ba517: > tree cab2cdadfda8e8e8631026443b11d3ed6e7ba517: > > .gitattributes > .gitignore > .mailmap > ... As Junio pointed out, the colon here is not syntactic, but from the original object name you gave it. But here... > $ git show 04050d37b1676ba8da277be1902513049b45413a: > tree 04050d37b1676ba8da277be1902513049b45413a > > .gitattributes > .gitignore > .mailmap > ... ...it is missing. Did you mean to omit it from the command-line? -Peff