Re: [RFC] get_sha1() shorthands for blob/tree objects

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 19, 2006, 14:44 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604190742240.3701@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <4445F1B0.4060105@op5.se>

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> 
> Except that you'll have to explicitly state HEAD:pathname:with:colon, or does
> it try finding a file with the argument verbatim first?

If you have a pathname:with:colon and you _just_ want to use it as a pathname, you'd do one of either:

 - use "--" to separate the pathnames from the revision info. That always 
   works.
 - even without the "--", if the first part of the pathname:with:colon (ie 
   the "pathname" part) cannot be looked up as a SHA1 tag, then the
   pathname:with:colon is left alone and seen as a normal file.

So "--" is always the dis-ambiguator. But it almost certainly will never be needed.

		Linus