From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:13:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: parse arbitrary commit-ish in SHA1 field
Message-ID: <7vtz0fndak.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <f7e6f82a33aa8496de81262d641953534089e980.1249742874.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> +	} else {
> +	    if {[catch {set id [exec git rev-parse $sha1string]}]} {

"--verify", or "--no-flags --revs-only"?  Examples of possible bad input
strings that you may otherwise not catch are:

	master..
        --merge -- a