Re: How to compare different files in different branches

From: Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask@develooper.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2008, 01:49 UTC
Message-ID: <3E23E92E-37E7-4076-9277-0E1002EC196F@develooper.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1w38l0el.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Jun 8, 2008, at 2:51, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>> Perhaps we should reference git-rev-list(1) from git-diff(1), too?
>
> This is just the standard syntax to name blob _anywhere_, so we  
> should not
> hide it in git-rev-list(1) but somewhere people would read before  
> reading
> any "technical manual" material, perhaps in the tutorial and git(1).

+1! A "how to specify files and revisions" tutorial with tips, tricks and examples would be great.

Since it's much more powerful in git than in other SCMs, this is one of the larger bits of things to learn.

  - ask

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