From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:33:36 GMT
Subject: Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file?
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