Re: reflog/show question

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 29, 2008, 20:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20080429201214.GB20509@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0804281847q267611aeke51b482cfbe100d6@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:17:09AM +0930, Geoff Russell wrote:

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> >  >      git show HEAD@{"3 minutes ago"}
> >  >
> >  > works as I expect, but
> >  >
> >  >      git show HEAD@{"3 minutes ago"}:data/node/node.data
> >  >
> >  > gives me a message:
> >  >
> >  >        warning: Log for 'HEAD' only goes back to Mon, 28 Apr 2008
> >  >        10:18:37 +0930.
> >  >
> >
> I think its something to do with the filename and my commit comments.
> The command works as expected on other files.  The HEAD file is
> attached.

Hmm. Are you sure that the commit you got from HEAD@{"3 minutes ago"} actually _has_ the file data/node/node.data? If it doesn't, then you get the error message you saw. And it may be that the reflog warning happens in _both_ cases, only you don't see it in the first because it is masked by the pager. In v1.5.5, that output is now sent to the pager, instead.

-Peff