From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:39:17 GMT
Subject: Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702280137460.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vejob9l70.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> >> > OK, how is that different from git-diff ?
> >> 
> >> I do not think there is any difference.  "show" is about
> >> multiple points, not ranges.  "diff" is about multiple
> >> (typically two) points, and not ranges.
> >
> > Well, I do think Ted has a good point. Having negative refs makes no sense 
> > for the "no-walk" case (aka "git show").
> >
> > ... Negative object refs really don't make any sense unless you walk 
> > the object list (or you're "git diff" and know about ranges explicitly).
> 
> If you did not say "(or you're..." part, then I would agree
> to this 100%.

git diff does not set revs->no_walk, so the patch would not trigger for 
git-diff.

Ciao,
Dscho