From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:17:39 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0610161817tc521f8dmc815623b60c27afc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610161714590.3962@g5.osdl.org>

On 10/17/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> So then you can do just
>
>         git cat todo:TODO
>
> and you're done.
>
> [ So for the non-git people, what that will actually _do_ is to show the
>   TODO file in the "todo" branch - regardless of whether it is checked out
>   or not, and start a pager for you. ]
>
> I actually do this sometimes, but I've never done it for branches (and I
> do it seldom enough that I haven't added the alias). I do it for things
> like
>
>         git cat v2.6.16:Makefile
>
> to see what a file looked like in a certain tagged release.

This very useful syntax (<ent>:<path>) didn't get documented
"officially" anywhere. It was actually documented in commit log
v1.4.1^0~255^2. Maybe someone should copy and paste it to git
documentation? Maybe core-tutorial.txt or git-rev-parse.txt, is there
any better place?
-- 
Duy