From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] git rebase not accepting :/ syntax
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:54:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ipbqx7iu.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120907150803.0ae2b186@chalon.bertin.fr> (Yann Dirson's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:08:03 +0200")
Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> writes:
> In 1.7.10.3, "git rebase -i :/Merge" will complain with:
>
> fatal: Needed a single revision
> invalid upstream :/Merge
>
> ... whereas "git rev-parse :/Merge" has no problem resolving
> to a single revision.
git rebase actually calls "git rev-parse :/Merge^0", which due to the
unlimited nature of :/ doesn't work.
> OTOH, "git rebase -i HEAD^{/Merge}" does work, and rev-parse resolves
> it to the same commit.
OTOH, "git rev-parse HEAD^{/Merge}^0" works as expected.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-07 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-07 13:08 [BUG?] git rebase not accepting :/ syntax Yann Dirson
2012-09-07 13:54 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2012-09-10 7:12 ` Yann Dirson
2012-09-10 8:29 ` Joachim Schmitz
2012-09-10 16:19 ` Junio C Hamano
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