Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 14, 2006, 00:16 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612140113340.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vk60vbcfz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >  * git-cat-file is badly named.  git-cat-object would be slightly
> >    better.
> 
> Not a Porcelain.
> 
> We might want to add a pair of built-in internal aliases though:
> 
> 	[alias]
>         	cat = cat-file -p
>                 less = -p cat-file -p
> 
> or have these as samples in template .git/config file.

I sent a patch which makes "git show" have that functionality, and frankly, I disagree "less" would be a good name for it. It uses the _pager_, which is not always "less", and besides, what it does is to show that particular blob. So obviously, I think my patch is the best approach.

BTW if you now say "git show master:README" it will show _nothing_, not even an error message.

Ciao,