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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Meaning of two commit-ish hash in git diff
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 11:48:02 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfu9yww7x.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <127f7748-4b5d-f6be-2c64-fa4ee079b871@gmail.com> (Yubin Ruan's message of "Wed, 1 Nov 2017 09:07:20 +0800")

Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com> writes:

>>> IOW, if you have the contents of the blob whose object name is
>>> f8886b4, by applying this patch, you will get a blob whose object
>>> name is a1c96df.
>>>
>>> The information is used by "git am -3" when the patch does not apply
>>> cleanly to fall back to the 3-way merge.
>> 
>> The ability to 'git describe` those blob object IDs is currently the subject of a patch series
>> https://public-inbox.org/git/20171031211852.13001-1-sbeller@google.com/
>> 
>> Maybe see if would have helped ;-)
>
> What would be other use case of the blob object / blob name ?

Perhaps start from "git cat-file blob $name".  And follow the path
your imagination leads you to ;-)



      reply	other threads:[~2017-11-01  2:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31  3:24 Meaning of two commit-ish hash in git diff Yubin Ruan
2017-10-31  4:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-01  0:27   ` Philip Oakley
2017-11-01  1:07     ` Yubin Ruan
2017-11-01  2:48       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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