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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2006-05-29 23:31:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-05-30 06:14:45 (GMT) |
| commit | 38573864f893653be012dd77c2da77f9ecbb1e02 (patch) | |
| tree | 50f9a3cdc2eed93d6f26cde3bdd4273f49ae0e09 | |
| parent | 2be1bc48ffe04d97ca61e2b7988e6870cd37766b (diff) | |
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documentation: add brief mention of cat-file to tutorial part I
I'd rather avoid git cat-file so early on, but the
git-cat-file -p old-commit:/path/to/file
trick is too useful....
Also fix a nearby typo while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/tutorial.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index 5fdeab9..039a859 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -435,12 +435,18 @@ adjust gitk's fonts by holding down the control key while pressing Finally, most commands that take filenames will optionally allow you to precede any filename by a commit, to specify a particular version -fo the file: +of the file: ------------------------------------- $ git diff v2.5:Makefile HEAD:Makefile.in ------------------------------------- +You can also use "git cat-file -p" to see any such file: + +------------------------------------- +$ git cat-file -p v2.5:Makefile +------------------------------------- + Next Steps ---------- |