From: skillzero@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:51:45 GMT
Subject: git show on bare repository?
Message-ID: <2729632a0908012051i28654bb7m418ff2ed00138815@mail.gmail.com>

I could have sworn I used to be able to use git show to display the
contents of a file from the server, but now it always says this (if I
use -- then it doesn't show anything):

fatal: ambiguous argument 'master:file.txt': unknown revision or path
not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

What I'm trying to do is allow people to get a single file without
having to clone the entirely repository, like this:

ssh git.example.com "cd /MyRepo.git && git show master:File.txt"

If I do this with a non-bare repository, it works. The server is
running git version 1.6.3.2 (I'm running 1.6.4 locally where it
works).