From: jidanni@jidanni.org
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:18:42 GMT
Subject: git ls-tree prints wacko file sizes if it can't find the blob
Message-ID: <87eizmty25.fsf_-_@jidanni.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090101192153.GA6536@coredump.intra.peff.net>

git ls-tree prints wacko file sizes if it can't find the blob:
$ git ls-tree --abbrev=4 -l 76e4
error: unable to find ae832f2245892ddde5221357466448b409775142
100644 blob ae83 3220821896     words

It is even affected by --abbrev:
$ for i in 4 5 40 999; do git ls-tree --abbrev=$i -l 76e4; done 2>&-|
perl -nwale 'print $F[3]'
3214344536
3219092952
3216251688
3217198088
$ git version
git version 1.6.0.6