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Re: odd name-rev behavior?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2011, 05:41 UTC
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Tim Walberg <twalberg@comcast.net> writes:
> That does indeed seem to work on first try. Not sure it was
> a particularly critical issue - just unexpected.

I didn't think it is particularly critical, either, and that is why I said it has been like this for eons at least since v1.6.0.

And it turns out that this was pretty much from day one of name-rev at bd321bc (Add git-name-rev, 2005-10-26).

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