Re: "sha1 information is lacking or useless" when rebasing with a submodule pointer conflict

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 1, 2013, 04:01 UTC
Message-ID: <7vboc4d6ni.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130130224904.GB1053@book.hvoigt.net>

Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> writes:

> Maybe Martin or Junio immediately see whats going wrong here? I would
> need to further dig into the git-am code to find out how to fix it.

Thanks. I think the minimum fix is this, but there are some nits to pick around this area as well.

diff --git b/git-am.sh a/git-am.sh
index b4d95f5..202130f 100755
--- b/git-am.sh
+++ a/git-am.sh
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ do
 			sed -e '1,/^$/d' >"$dotest/msg-clean"
 			echo "$commit" >"$dotest/original-commit"
 			get_author_ident_from_commit "$commit" >"$dotest/author-script"
-			git diff-tree --root --binary "$commit" >"$dotest/patch"
+			git diff-tree --root --binary --full-index "$commit" >"$dotest/patch"
 		else
 			git mailinfo $keep $no_inbody_headers $scissors $utf8 "$dotest/msg" "$dotest/patch" \
 				<"$dotest/$msgnum" >"$dotest/info" ||