Re: ambiguous argument '...': unknown revision or path not in the working tree

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 18, 2010, 06:59 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3a23ucdm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87ska5vzbs.fsf@turtle.gmx.de>

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

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> I've got a strange error message in 'git push':
>
> ,----
> | % git push
> | Counting objects: 47, done.
> | Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
> | Compressing objects: 100% (24/24), done.
> | Writing objects: 100% (24/24), 4.37 KiB, done.
> | Total 24 (delta 22), reused 0 (delta 0)
> | fatal: ambiguous argument '3bbc6def8a06e4411bee130b811ff9507e90503d:debian/changelog': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
> | Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

I think there is nothing "fatal" in your git setup, other than that the repository at the remote end you are pushing into has a broken hook script (perhaps update, post-receive, or post-update) that is issuing the error message. I would raise the issue with the owner of the repository if I were you.