From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:55:43 GMT
Subject: Re: svn versus git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612141754420.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0612140832v1c80bf7dgd61897111292d31@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On 12/14/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Two questions arise naturally:
> > 
> > - what do you need it for?
> 
> for being user-friendly and consistent.

Okay, I only thought you had a use case, which could have been possibly 
better served by other commands.

> > - have you seen the patch for git-show today, which would include this
> > functionality?
> 
> I didn't. From the patch, it seems git-show can show the index via
> ::file syntax. If so, I'd like withdraw my opinion. '::file' syntax is
> not intuitive though. Perhaps you should mention that it can show
> index (and how) in the git-show document

Well, you can reference blobs that way, but not trees.

Ciao,
Dscho