From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann Dirson Subject: [BUG?] git rebase not accepting :/ syntax Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:08:03 +0200 Organization: Bertin Technologies Message-ID: <20120907150803.0ae2b186@chalon.bertin.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: git list X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 07 15:37:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T9yku-00017r-32 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:37:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758579Ab2IGNhr (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:37:47 -0400 Received: from cabourg.bertin.fr ([195.68.26.10]:63336 "EHLO cabourg.bertin.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754152Ab2IGNhq (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:37:46 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1781 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:37:45 EDT Received: from cabourg.bertin.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss70 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42408A0FD2 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:08:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from yport1.innovation.bertin.fr (yport1.bertin.fr [192.168.1.13]) by cabourg.bertin.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C400A0FCC for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:08:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from chalon.bertin.fr ([172.16.1.1]) by yport1.innovation.bertin.fr (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPPA id <0M9Z00E33DTD5190@yport1.innovation.bertin.fr> for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:08:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: IMSS-7.0.0.8220-6.8.0.1017-19168.007 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. OTOH, "git rebase -i HEAD^{/Merge}" does work, and rev-parse resolves it to the same commit. Is that due in some way to the semantic differences between the two revspecs, or is that just a bug ? -- Yann Dirson - Bertin Technologies