[PATCH] git-show.txt: mention that object path must be relative in EXAMPLES.
From: Jari Aalto <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:07
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <redacted> --- Documentation/git-show.txt | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt
index 48b612e..2a014cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}:: git show next~10:Documentation/README:: Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch - `next`. + `next`. *Note:* the 'object' path must always be relative to git + project root. This wouldn't have worked: + + $ cd Documentation + $ git show next~10:README git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile:: Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
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1.5.6.5