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Re: should git rev-parse -q --verify on a range produce output?

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Ddemerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
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Jan 9, 2023, 09:04 UTC
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 at 04:51, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Is this something you think should be fixed? I would give it a go if
> > there was some direction on what it should do in this case. Just error
> > early and produce no output?
>
> I do not mind if the error case gets changed to behave differently,
> as long as the updated behaviour is something everybody thinks an
> improvement over the current behaviour.  I do not offhand know what
> the "fixed" behaviour should be.
>
> I do not mind if nothing changed and documentation gets updated to
> reduce end-user confusion, either.

Ok, I'll wait a bit to see if someone can suggest a good alternative behavior, and if nobody does ill write a doc patch.

Cheers! Yves

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