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Re: [PATCH] document the <tree ish> <file> blob reference syntax

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 25, 2006, 20:04 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
> 
>> It is possible to specify a specific file within a tree-ish
>> symbolically.  For example you can find the contents of
>> a specific file in a specific commit as below:
>>
>>       git cat-file -p v1.2.4:git-prune.sh
> 
> Didn't we document this elsewhere recently in git-rev-parse?
> How about this instead?

Redundancy in documentation is (usually) good idea. Perhaps both?

P.S. "recently" as in "Thu Oct 19 10:04:55 2006 +0700" in 'master', commit v1.4.3-g6b09c78

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  1. document the <tree ish> <file> blob reference syntaxAndy Whitcroft, Oct 25, 2006
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  3. Andy WhitcroftOct 25, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2006
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