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Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:
> Not necessarily, especially when pathspec is given like the original post,
> i.e. "git diff $tree_ish -- $path". We would need to open tree objects
> that lead to the leaf of the $path and a blob, but other objects won't be
> needed.
And git show branch:path already has that code.