Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 19:33 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271132130.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070227190912.GA30080@thunk.org>

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> 
> Yeah, the problem was that in the git man pages I had read, and the
> git tutorials that I had read, I had never learned about the
> <tree>:<path> syntax of object identifiers.

It's there in git-rev-parse.txt (which explains all the SHA1 object "math"), but yeah, it's not exactly obvious, and all the examples tend to use just the "commit relationship" math, not the commit->tree->path rules.

		Linus

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