Re: reflog/show question

["Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>]

On 4/30/08, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:17:09AM +0930, Geoff Russell wrote:
>
>  > >  >      git show HEAD@{"3 minutes ago"}
>  > >  >
>  > >  > works as I expect, but
>  > >  >
>  > >  >      git show HEAD@{"3 minutes ago"}:data/node/node.data
>  > >  >
>  > >  > gives me a message:
>  > >  >
>  > >  >        warning: Log for 'HEAD' only goes back to Mon, 28 Apr 2008
>  > >  >        10:18:37 +0930.
>  > >  >
>  > >
>
> > I think its something to do with the filename and my commit comments.
>  > The command works as expected on other files.  The HEAD file is
>  > attached.
>
>
> Hmm. Are you sure that the commit you got from HEAD@{"3 minutes ago"}
>  actually _has_ the file data/node/node.data? If it doesn't, then you get
>  the error message you saw. And it may be that the reflog warning happens
>  in _both_ cases, only you don't see it in the first because it is masked
>  by the pager. In v1.5.5, that output is now sent to the pager, instead.
>
>  -Peff
>

Later today (touch wood) I'll prepare as small a test case as
possible, then send
a tar.gz of the .git directory. Okay?

Geoff.


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