From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:15:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cat-file "Not a valid object name"
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP02FFAE9A97F102AC11A13EAEB20@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <46FD7AA5.2080007@earthdetails.com>

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:05:25 -0700
Reza Roboubi <reza@earthdetails.com> wrote:

> git-cat-file -t 9b22b50f814b22224d6f838433f1e9cd36bfc2
>
>
> says: "Not a valid object name".
> 
> So what is this thing in my .git:
> ../.git/objects/92/9b22b50f814b22224d6f838433f1e9cd36bfc2

Reza,

The first two digits of the sha1 appear before the final slash (/)..
Therefore the actual object name in the case you give is
929b22b50f814b22224d6f838433f1e9cd36bfc2.  So the following command
should work:

$ git cat-file -t 929b22b5

Sean