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Re: wierd git show syntax

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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Sep 30, 2010, 11:32 UTC
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Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> writes:
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> Hi,
>
> $ git show XXXX:data/path/object.c
>
> Gives me what I want, a cat of the objects contents. However
> for some files I get a message about ambiguous argument telling me to
> separate paths from revisions with '--'.
This happens if data/path/object.c doesn't exist in XXXX.

A common mistake is to write XXXX:relative/path when Git expects a path relative to the tree root. Git >= 1.7 would give you a more friendly error message in this case.

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