Re: [RFC] get_sha1() shorthands for blob/tree objects

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2006, 00:14 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90604181714j6fce1867wc17952d898f8e7ae@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604181627101.3701@g5.osdl.org>

On 4/19/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

>   What do people think? Have you ever wanted to
>   access individual files in some random revision? Do you think this is
>   useful?

Definitely, I've several times had to go through contortions to do this easily, and I've ended up turning to gitweb often to quickly see the state of a file at a given revision.

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> With this, you can do something like
>
>         git cat-file blob v1.2.4:Makefile
>
> to get the contents of "Makefile" at revision v1.2.4.
>
> Now, this isn't necessarily something you really need all that often, but
> the concept itself is actually pretty powerful. We could, for example,
> allow things like
>
>         git diff v0.99.6:git-commit-script..v1.3.0:git-commit.sh

These two examples are more than enough -- I buy ;-)

martin