* `cat-file --filter` is broken in 2.50?
@ 2025-06-30 16:07 Dan Pristupov
2025-06-30 17:06 ` Phillip Wood
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Pristupov @ 2025-06-30 16:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Hi,
`cat-file --filter` stopped working in git 2.50.
```
$ git version
git version 2.47.1.windows.2
$ git cat-file --filter "HEAD:changelog.md"
<content>
```
```
$ git version
git version 2.50.0.windows.1
$ git cat-file --filter "HEAD:changelog.md"
fatal: invalid filter-spec 'HEAD:changelog.md'
```
The problem was introduced at eb83e4c64b5a3458569593c2ab0c29365f10a82f.
Then it was merged into the main branch by
a271b05066a1fd2c3a62508d9908d6c5df14a1cb.
This seems like a bug.
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* Re: `cat-file --filter` is broken in 2.50?
2025-06-30 16:07 `cat-file --filter` is broken in 2.50? Dan Pristupov
@ 2025-06-30 17:06 ` Phillip Wood
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Phillip Wood @ 2025-06-30 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Pristupov, git
Hi Dan
On 30/06/2025 17:07, Dan Pristupov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> `cat-file --filter` stopped working in git 2.50.
cat-file did not have a "--filter" option before 2.50. The option you
are looking for is "--filters". As git accepts unambiguous abbreviations
for long options "--filter" used to match "--filters" but now it is a
separate option. Being able to use abbreviated option names is useful at
the command line but they are best avoided in scripts.
Best Wishes
Phillip
>
> ```
> $ git version
> git version 2.47.1.windows.2
>
> $ git cat-file --filter "HEAD:changelog.md"
> <content>
> ```
>
> ```
> $ git version
> git version 2.50.0.windows.1
>
> $ git cat-file --filter "HEAD:changelog.md"
> fatal: invalid filter-spec 'HEAD:changelog.md'
> ```
>
> The problem was introduced at eb83e4c64b5a3458569593c2ab0c29365f10a82f.
>
> Then it was merged into the main branch by
> a271b05066a1fd2c3a62508d9908d6c5df14a1cb.
>
> This seems like a bug.
>
>
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