Re: svn versus git

> On 12/14/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > - 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.
> 
> Oh, yeah. Isn't this a good oppotunity to add --index option to git-show?
> git-show --index will show the index. git-show --index file will show
> the file content. This makes git-show a little unconsistent though as
> it may or may not require argument <object>.
> 
> Another option is treat '::' alone specially -- call git-ls-files.