Re: reflog/show question

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

N.B. This problem has vanished -- which means its probably something I
messed up. I haven't
worked out what yet, but I will.  Apologies for any time wasted.

Cheers,
Geoff.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Geoff Russell
<geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Geoff Russell
>  <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>  >  > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:36:23AM +0930, Geoff Russell wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >  > > 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
>  >  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > > Later today (touch wood) I'll prepare as small a test case as
>  >  >  > possible, then send
>  >  >  > a tar.gz of the .git directory. Okay?
>  >  >
>  >  >  That would be great, thanks.
>  >
>  >  Attached is tar.gz of working directory (.) - so unpack in a new directory.
>  >
>  >        git show HEAD@{"N seconds ago"}:data/node/.gitignore
>  >
>  >  works fine for values of N back to creationof file
>  >
>  >  But:
>  >
>  >        git show HEAD@{"N seconds ago"}:data/node/node.newds1
>  >
>  >  doesn't work for any values of N.
>  >
>  >  During my attempts to create this example, I managed created a
>  >  directory which where
>  >  the show command failed for both files, but when I changed the commit
>  >  message, the
>  >  show worked for .gitignore but not the node file. Hence my suspicion
>  >  of that the slashes
>  >  in the path are being interpreted as requesting a commit message match ...?
>  >
>  >  I hope you can track it down, I will install the latest version of git
>  >  later on today to
>  >  confirm the behaviour is still happening.
>
>  I just confirmed behaviour is still the same in 1.5.5
>
>  Geoff.
>
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>  >
>  >  Thanks,
>  >  Geoff Russell
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  -Peff
>  >
>  >
>  > >
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