Git show doesn't work

Question

When I run a Git command like this

git show 2cc9f40e99c34f9117a6feae3aa plugins/sfDoctrineGuardPlugin/modules/sfGuardAuth/templates/_signin_form.php

I usually get nothing. Sometimes I get something similar to what I'd see for git diff but usually it returns nothing. From what I understand, this is not the expected behavior. Am I doing it wrong or is Git messing up?

Answer 1

You need a colon between the SHA1 and the path:

git show 7b0a0e7:setup.py
git show 2cc9f40e99c34f9117a6feae3aa:plugins/sfDoctrineGuardPlugin/modules/sfGuardAuth/templates/_signin_form.php