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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Eric Raible" <raible@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Subject: Re: ':/<oneline prefix>' notation doesn't support full file syntax
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:34:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfxqr2won.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <279b37b20807022242q69ad2fcbwb8c11a9d6165272d@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Raible's message of "Wed, 2 Jul 2008 22:42:52 -0700")

"Eric Raible" <raible@gmail.com> writes:

> % git rev-parse ":/object name":sha1_name.c
> :/object name:sha1_name.c
> fatal: ambiguous argument ':/object name:sha1_name.c': unknown
> revision or path not in the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
>
> A quick look at int sha1_name.c:get_sha1() shows that it doesn't
> even try to make this work.  Is this worth fixing?

Is there anything to fix?  In that example, you are looking for a commit
that talks about "object name:sha1_name.c" in the comment.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-03 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-03  5:42 ':/<oneline prefix>' notation doesn't support full file syntax Eric Raible
2008-07-03  8:34 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-03  8:50   ` Eric Raible
2008-07-03 12:38     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-03 18:27     ` Dana How
2008-07-03 21:26       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-04  0:14         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-04  0:33       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-03 10:47 ` Jeff King

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