From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 02:02:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-parse: Identify short sha1 sums correctly.
Message-ID: <20070530020236.GI7044@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vabvn5hca.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com> writes:
> 
> > find_short_packed_object was not loading the pack index files.
> > Teach it to do so.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com>
> 
> I think this is the proper fix of the problem I was unhappy
> about with 'next'

Actually this bug is exactly the reason why I *always* run 'next'
in production use on all of my systems, and why I also get a number
of coworkers to run it.  Many people beating on the same code in
weird ways notice things.

Today I found this because I have a shell script that tried to
do something of the form "git checkout v1.8.0-18-g18as1f' and Git
couldn't believe that was a revision...  It held up day-job work
for an hour while I tracked it down, but I did catch it.  ;-)

-- 
Shawn.