From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: ambiguous argument '...': unknown revision or path not in the working tree Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:59:33 -0800 Message-ID: <7v3a23ucdm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <87ska5vzbs.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Sven Joachim X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 18 07:59:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NWlaY-00040z-D1 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:59:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752850Ab0ARG7n (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:59:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752834Ab0ARG7n (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:59:43 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:40274 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752633Ab0ARG7m (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:59:42 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4381A92635; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:59:40 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=2QPI3jmnMLXbgMULypvkR+8uq4g=; b=aDbfJV ExVnBAnKjwBBVW8r+0+AyXkIszLcWn7y2g4lo0NmFWYZMsVLW1BEaZVmCZXyhOTm hey0DBAeC9b8dPVYsEoVk2t3uzVKhs92enrQGbSFuNfTB4hbn1/Vu4nYQa/4wTG4 tm07KbBYpJr3wevg/zAWnAGPNNpnZWx9bGlmk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=AIJxBfA7aaMjGbGyPOiKclwgDV+ZAPmC OZFqZlAcZojsIAG34XR8TjvDLuqPMs4jFPjRAqNgleGjfjVb9+NNChegSGqFfRLa Fj2XbwZl7Ay5xqXsXviZ1K5CH8cxi7mqmrG7FunzGS78IZ0aNW4ek5MR/Qb7ACHC 1IgpXfE7tTQ= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E30892634; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:59:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 74EA792631; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:59:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87ska5vzbs.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (Sven Joachim's message of "Sun\, 17 Jan 2010 10\:46\:15 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 0B070690-03FF-11DF-8220-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sven Joachim writes: > I've got a strange error message in 'git push': > > ,---- > | % git push > | Counting objects: 47, done. > | Delta compression using up to 2 threads. > | Compressing objects: 100% (24/24), done. > | Writing objects: 100% (24/24), 4.37 KiB, done. > | Total 24 (delta 22), reused 0 (delta 0) > | fatal: ambiguous argument '3bbc6def8a06e4411bee130b811ff9507e90503d:debian/changelog': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. > | Use '--' to separate paths from revisions I think there is nothing "fatal" in your git setup, other than that the repository at the remote end you are pushing into has a broken hook script (perhaps update, post-receive, or post-update) that is issuing the error message. I would raise the issue with the owner of the repository if I were you.