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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 28, 2007, 00:30 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271626410.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702280059050.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> 	$ git show v1.5.0..v1.5.0.1
> 
> is _identical_ to
> 
> 	$ git show v1.5.0 v1.5.0.1

No, it's not.

Try it.

For one thing, the ".." format makes no sense with something that doesn't actually walk the range (it _does_ make sense for "diff", because while it doesn't "walk the range", it does show the _result_ of walking that the range - "diff" really is special, since by definition it's about end-poits).

For another, "git show" actually uses "cmd_log_walk()" for showing commits, which in turn uses get_revision(), which in turn will _ignore_ any commit that you've marked uninteresting.

So it will *not* show the commit that is v1.5.0.

So I agree with Ted: "git show" as it is now is not logical with commit ranges. I sent out a patch that I think at least makes it sensible, although I'm not claiming that it's necessarily the only way to handle it.

		Linus