Re: wierd git show syntax

Geoff Russell [off-list ref] 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.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Matthieu Moy
[off-list ref] wrote:

Geoff Russell [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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.

Thanks Matthieu and Tom for your explanations on this. It's clearer
now ... even if my intuition failed to match the syntax!

Cheers,
Geoff