From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:29:27 GMT
Subject: Re: A new way to get a sha1?
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In-Reply-To: <CACPiFCKxYdF8G33myfjOXU31cDWrfrtedve8m89tH_tfOCZ4ng@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>         git show -s ':/^t1100-.*: Fix an interm'
>
> That doesn't work for me (git 1.7.10.4 as per Fedora 18 rpms) in
> git.git. But the idea is sound -- git can give you the sha1 trivially.
> You don't need additional glue.

The idea was that you do not have to give abbreviated SHA-1 to Git
in the first place.

What doesn't work?  My copy of v1.7.10.1 seems to grok the above
just fine.