From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:13:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] document the <tree ish> <file> blob reference syntax
Message-ID: <7vy7r4nogm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <453FBDAA.50305@shadowen.org>

Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:

>> +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

  164 * A suffix ':' followed by a path; this names the blob or tree
  165   at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part
  166   before the colon.