# Re: \[PATCH\] document the \<tree ish\> \<file\> blob reference syntax

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-11 19:18:09 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7688048
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7688048/t.md

```text
Andy Whitcroft [ref] writes:

>> +For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
>> +"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
>> +
>
> That section seems to have more compresensive descriptions of the
> various definitions of commit-ish, but not a tree-ish.  Specifically,
> there is no mentions of tree-ish:file

  164 * A suffix ':' followed by a path; this names the blob or tree
  165   at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part
  166   before the colon.

```