From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:51:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting a commit sha1 from fast-import in a remote-helper
Message-ID: <20141118025131.GH4336@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141118023112.GA14034@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 05:40:28PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> How did you get that "Not a blob" message?
>
> When trying to *create* a tree with a commit in it, so instead of giving
> the mark for a blob to a filemodify command, giving a mark for a commit.
> That is what fails with "Not a blob".

Ah, I see what you were trying now.  It's complaining that the data
and mode don't match up.  See <mode> under 'filemodify' in the manual.

Something like

	M 160000 :1 mycommit

should work fine, though that's a pretty ugly workaround for the
inability to do

	ls :1

[...]
>> I think a good fix would be to teach parse_ls a mode with no <path>
>> parameter.  Something like this (untested; needs cleanup and tests):
>
> This would make both your commands output the same thing, right? It
> wouldn't help my case :)

It's easily possible my patch has a typo somewhere, but the expected
output format would be

	commit 6066a7eac4b2bcdb86971783b583e4e408b32e81

That wouldn't help?

Puzzled,
Jonathan