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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: ':/<oneline prefix>' notation doesn't support full file syntax
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:34:16 -0700
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"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.