Bugreport: core-tutorial example outdated?

Bugreport: core-tutorial example outdated?

[Clemens Koller]

Hi there!

I just studied
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/core-tutorial.html
to get more into the details of git. But the following commands:

$ git-cat-file -t 557db03de997c86a4a028e1ebd3a1ceb225be238
$ git-cat-file "blob" 557db03

just bring up a

fatal: Not a valid object name 557db03de

I guess the documentation is slightly outdated and might need a fix.

Best greets,
-- 
Clemens Koller
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Re: Bugreport: core-tutorial example outdated?

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Clemens Koller wrote:

> I just studied
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/core-tutorial.html
> to get more into the details of git. But the following commands:
> 
> $ git-cat-file -t 557db03de997c86a4a028e1ebd3a1ceb225be238
> $ git-cat-file "blob" 557db03
> 
> just bring up a
> 
> fatal: Not a valid object name 557db03de

Did you actually add a file with the content "Hello World\n"? If not, you 
should not be surprised.

Hth,
Dscho

Re: Bugreport: core-tutorial example outdated?

[Clemens Koller]

Hello, Dscho!

>>I just studied
>>http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/core-tutorial.html
> 
> Did you actually add a file with the content "Hello World\n"? If not, you 
> should not be surprised.

Argh... yes, I even adopted my numbers to my case, but I just didn't
include the /55/... 2 letter folder name in the /55/7db03de997 object names... :-(

$ ls .git/objects/??/*
.git/objects/55/7db03de997c86a4a028e1ebd3a1ceb225be238
.git/objects/f2/4c74a2e500f5ee1332c86b94199f52b1d1d962
$ git-cat-file -t 7db03de997           <- wrong!
fatal: Not a valid object name 7db03de997
$ git-cat-file -t 557db03de            <- correct!
blob

Jup, those little details... once you don't stick to any tags.
Fine! Thanks! The tutorial, too!

Best greets,

Clemens Koller
_______________________________
R&D Imaging Devices
Anagramm GmbH
Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1
81379 Muenchen
Germany

http://www.anagramm.de
Phone: +49-89-741518-50

Re: Bugreport: core-tutorial example outdated?

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 07:15:17PM +0200, Clemens Koller wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I just studied
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/core-tutorial.html
> to get more into the details of git. But the following commands:
> 
> $ git-cat-file -t 557db03de997c86a4a028e1ebd3a1ceb225be238
> $ git-cat-file "blob" 557db03
> 
> just bring up a
> 
> fatal: Not a valid object name 557db03de
> 
> I guess the documentation is slightly outdated and might need a fix.

Works for me.  The precise names there depend on the files you create
being byte-for-byte identical to the ones created by the echo commands
in the tutorial.  If yours aren't identical, then you should just use
the names that the previous ls command instead.