From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:02:48 GMT
Subject: wierd git show syntax
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Zz-1dSC0imJ3NZXWcdvhXWXt-Kk94zwKe8+6Y@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

$ git show XXXX:data/path/object.c

Gives me what I want, a cat of the objects contents. However
for some files I get a message about ambiguous argument telling me to
separate paths from revisions with '--'. Okay so I try that:

$ git show -- XXXX:data/path/object.c

But it gives me nothing

$ git show XXXX -- data/path/object.c

Gives me a git diff output for the object.


This is all with git 1.6.2.3

What's happening here? Why aren't all these equivalent?


Cheers,
Geoff Russell