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Subject: Re: Unexpected error: short SHA1 is ambiguous
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On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrot=
e:

> No, the ^0 is not restricting anything. =C2=A0It 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. =C2=A0But again, which ran=
ge 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.