From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:19:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/18] Extending the shelf-life of "git describe" output
Message-ID: <7vehoswym9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120703071940.GB16679@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>   $ git show 0003^{commit}
>   fatal: ambiguous argument '0003^{commit}': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
>   Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
>
> I think the code is right not to return an object at all (since it is
> ambiguous), but it might be helpful to say "your sha1 was ambiguous, but
> none of the possibilities matched our criteria" or similar. Otherwise
> the error message looks exactly like the "there is no such object at
> all" case.

True.  Thanks for reading.