From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:40:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] document the <tree ish> <file> blob reference syntax
Message-ID: <453FBDAA.50305@shadowen.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vwt6ob5zc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
> 
>> It is possible to specify a specific file within a tree-ish
>> symbolically.  For example you can find the contents of
>> a specific file in a specific commit as below:
>>
>> 	git cat-file -p v1.2.4:git-prune.sh
> 
> Didn't we document this elsewhere recently in git-rev-parse?
> How about this instead?
> 
> -- >8 --
> [PATCH] Refer to git-rev-parse:Specifying Revisions from git.txt
> 
> The brief list given in "Symbolic Identifiers" section of the
> main documentation is good enough for overview, but help the
> reader to find a more comrehensive list as needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> ---
>  Documentation/git.txt |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
> index 3af6fc6..b00607e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git.txt
> @@ -562,6 +562,9 @@ HEAD::
>  	a valid head 'name'
>  	(i.e. the contents of `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/<head>`).
>  
> +For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
> +"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
> +

That section seems to have more compresensive descriptions of the
various definitions of commit-ish, but not a tree-ish.  Specifically,
there is no mentions of tree-ish:file