From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:34:16 GMT
Subject: Re: ':/<oneline prefix>' notation doesn't support full file syntax
Message-ID: <7vfxqr2won.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <279b37b20807022242q69ad2fcbwb8c11a9d6165272d@mail.gmail.com>

"Eric Raible" <raible@gmail.com> writes:

> % git rev-parse ":/object name":sha1_name.c
> :/object name:sha1_name.c
> fatal: ambiguous argument ':/object name:sha1_name.c': unknown
> revision or path not in the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
>
> A quick look at int sha1_name.c:get_sha1() shows that it doesn't
> even try to make this work.  Is this worth fixing?

Is there anything to fix?  In that example, you are looking for a commit
that talks about "object name:sha1_name.c" in the comment.