Re: git-contacts questions

[Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Sebastian Schuberth
> <sschuberth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Felipe Contreras
>> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> 1) Passing just "HEAD" as a committish like in "git contacts HEAD"
>>>> does not output anything for me, but using the SHA1 for HEAD does
>>>> neither. My HEAD commit does not add any files, but only modifies
>>>> previously existing files, so I would have expected some output. In
>>>> case it turns out to be correct to have no output in my case, could we
>>>> probably say that in some message to the user?
>>>
>>> It should be HEAD^, or -1, like with 'git format-patch'.
>>
>> Oh, that's pretty much unexpected. Wouldn't it be much more natural if
>> I had to specify the commit(s) that introduce(s) the changes that I
>> want others to look at?
>
> Yeah, that's exactly what you are doing. How do you tell 'git log' to
> show you certain changes?

I'm not sure what you're trying to point me at. It's clear that from
an implementation view you need to blame HEAD^ if you need to know
which poeple should review your changes in HEAD. But IMHO that is an
implementation detail that should be hidden from the user. Like I
said, I think it would be much more natural if it worked by specifying
the commits that *I* introduced, and then lists all people to contact
for a review.

>> $ git related b0783baacd20be7007df40cf274985c4863d63fb
>> C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/git-related:309:in
>> `popen': can't convert Array into String (TypeError)
>>         from C:/Program Files
>> (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/git-related:309:in `from_rev_args'
>>         from C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/git-related:345
>
> Fixed.

Thanks, but now I'm getting

$ git related b0783baacd20be7007df40cf274985c4863d63fb
fatal: ambiguous argument '\^b0783baacd20be7007df40cf274985c4863d63fb': unknown
revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

I've checked of course that the commit exists.

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth