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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unexpected error: short SHA1 is ambiguous
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:02:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lja0wb6n.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006262323310.24097@xanadu.home> (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:35:24 -0400 (EDT)")

Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Jay Soffian wrote:
>> 1. Since I restricted to commits with ^0, and there's only one such
>> commit, shouldn't rev-list give me what I want? (rev-parse similarly
>> fails).
>
> No, the ^0 is not restricting anything.  It merely says you want to walk 
> through zero parents from the specified commit, but the commit 
> specification is ambiguous (3 possibilities exist).

But ^0 can only be applied to a commit, and only one commit matches
aabb.

Andreas.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-27 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-27  2:16 Unexpected error: short SHA1 is ambiguous Jay Soffian
2010-06-27  3:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-06-27  4:02   ` Jay Soffian
2010-06-27 19:02   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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