From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:18:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] grep: use '/' delimiter for paths
Message-ID: <CABURp0qbvwSA1RcmCnVQVo-3O6rHZ3kP9dv0T9+mCzPWbAkHeQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170123132918.GM29186@stefanha-x1.localdomain>

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 1:54 AM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The use of "git show" you are demonstrating is still about showing
> > the commit object, whose behaviour is defined to show the log
> > message and the diff relative to its sole parent, limited to the
> > paths that match the pathspec.
> >
> > It is perfectly fine and desirable that "git show <commit>:<path>"
> > and "git show <commit> -- <path>" behaves differently.  These are
> > two completely different features.
>
> Thanks for explaining guys.  It all makes logical sense.  I just hope I
> remember the distinctions in that table for everyday git use.


Familiar itch; previous discussion here:

https://public-inbox.org/git/1377528372-31206-1-git-send-email-hordp@cisco.com/

Phil