From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cat-file: dies with --batch if reflog entry is out of bounds
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:40:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqcy2argqh.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b07489b-1689-4ecd-9cda-012540fe56e2@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:13:36 +0100")
"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:
> $ git cat-file --batch
> HEAD@{7}
> <commit>
> branch@{20}
> fatal: log for 'branch' only has 5 entries
> [died]
>
> This is a known limitation.
It is pretty safe to call this a BUG, given that everywhere we seem
to try very hard to diagnose "you asked me about X, but that does
not name anything I know about", as you found out..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-11 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-11 23:13 cat-file: dies with --batch if reflog entry is out of bounds Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-11 23:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-02-12 4:07 ` Jeff King
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