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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unexpected error: short SHA1 is ambiguous
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:02:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik_TqDoNxEbQW8lTv7l-qfCLR9ICXEabGCSGy_5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006262323310.24097@xanadu.home>

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:

> No, the ^0 is not restricting anything.  It merely says you want to walk
> through zero parents from the specified commit, but the commit
> specification is ambiguous (3 possibilities exist).

Okay.

> rev-list will give you a range of commits.  But again, which range do
> you want? There are 3 possible starting points when only specifying
> aabb.

I see. Well, I guess I'd wanted something like "rev-list --no-walk
--all-matches <ambiguous SHA-1>" as a way to say "return everything
even if it isn't canonical".

In any case, I found a better way to go about what I was trying to do.

Thanks,

j.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-27  4:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-27  2:16 Unexpected error: short SHA1 is ambiguous Jay Soffian
2010-06-27  3:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-06-27  4:02   ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2010-06-27 19:02   ` Andreas Schwab

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