Re: Command-line interface thoughts

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:48:56PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

  git show INDEX:OURS:Makefile

which is identical to what I wrote above, but is perhaps easier to
explain.

Why does anybody even want to say :2:Makefile to begin with?
[...]
I do not think whoever brought that "you can look at individual stages
with :$n:$path" to this discussion was thinking straight. Yes, it is
something you _could_ do, I've never found that particularly _useful_
unless I was debugging git itself.

I think it may have been me, and I was bringing it up for completeness
in discussion of the new tokens. I don't actually use that concept very
often at all, so it can just be dropped from this discussion.

-Peff