Re: 'git show' with multiple revisions

2015-04-28 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:10:52AM +, Ed Avis wrote: Could 'git show' sprout an option to get multiple things programmatically so that they can be separated out again? One way would be to quote or escape the contents somehow so that the result can be parsed: % git show --porcelain

'git show' with multiple revisions

2015-04-28 Thread Ed Avis
I would like to see the content of a file in multiple revisions. I can get them with 'git show' as follows: % git show REV1:FILE % git show REV2:FILE and so on. But that launches a new process for each revision. Now, there is the option to pass multiple arguments to 'git show': %