From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:32:31 GMT
Subject: Re: wierd git show syntax
Message-ID: <vpqtyl7fovk.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Zz-1dSC0imJ3NZXWcdvhXWXt-Kk94zwKe8+6Y@mail.gmail.com>

Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> writes:

> 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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Matthieu Moy
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