From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:04:29 GMT
Subject: Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file?
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.0.82.0702272001440.29426@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271605290.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> We should complain, and say that you can only do "no_walk" with positive 
> refs. Negative object refs really don't make any sense unless you walk 
> the obejct list (or you're "git diff" and know about ranges explicitly).
> 
> Something like this (although I don't know if my message is necessarily 
> the best possible one).

It could be improved a little.

What about "a single object specification only must be provided" 
instead?


Nicolas