From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:27:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] get_sha1() shorthands for blob/tree objects
Message-ID: <7vy7y2csv8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604181627101.3701@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> [ NOTE! The reason I put "RFC" in the subject rather than "PATCH" is that 
>   I'm not 100% sure this isn't just a "shiny object" of mine rather than a 
>   really useful thing to do. What do people think? Have you ever wanted to 
>   access individual files in some random revision? Do you think this is 
>   useful? I think it's cool and _may_ be useful, but I'm not going to 
>   really push this patch. Consider it a throw-away patch unless somebody 
>   else finds it intriguing enough.. ]

Yes, I wanted to do this myself for a while.  The only issue I
might have is what the separator character between rev and path
should be.