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Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:40:55 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cat-file: dies with --batch if reflog entry is out of bounds In-Reply-To: <2b07489b-1689-4ecd-9cda-012540fe56e2@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:13:36 +0100") References: <2b07489b-1689-4ecd-9cda-012540fe56e2@app.fastmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:40:54 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" writes: > $ git cat-file --batch > HEAD@{7} > > branch@{20} > fatal: log for 'branch' only has 5 entries > [died] > > This is a known limitation. It is pretty safe to call this a BUG, given that everywhere we seem to try very hard to diagnose "you asked me about X, but that does not name anything I know about", as you found out..