From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:33:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] document the blob reference syntax Message-ID: <7vwt6ob5zc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <38fafea491402334df335c486270ebe9@pinky> Andy Whitcroft 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 --- 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/`). +For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see +"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]. + File/Directory Structure ------------------------ -- 1.4.3.2.gc1a4