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From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
Subject: Re: git doesn't finds the parent of a commit (was: How to fetch missing pack)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:37:31 +0200
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J?rg Sommer wrote:
>% git rev-parse b63e99500137c913bd801a2f22b6cf88c63b95c5~1
>b63e99500137c913bd801a2f22b6cf88c63b95c5~1
>fatal: ambiguous argument 'b63e99500137c913bd801a2f22b6cf88c63b95c5~1': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
>Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

>Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I've had similar symptoms when I had circular references in the
repository.  They're not reported by any of the existing checks, I've
submitted a patch (resent it just now) which causes git to check for
(and report) circular references when using --topo-order on e.g.
git-rev-list.
-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg.