From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:46:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] get_sha1(): :path and :[0-3]:path to extract from index.
Message-ID: <7vr73myrdu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060425083724.GA1663@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

>> This is a fairly straightforward patch to allow "get_sha1()" to
>> also have shorthands for blob objects in the current index.
>
> I sometimes want to have something like that:
>
> 	uzeisberger@io:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git cat-file blob v2.6.16:Makefile
>
> That is not a shortcut for objects in the current index, but for blobs
> in written trees.

That's already present in the "master".  You are responding to a
wrong message ;-).