From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:25:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] sha1_name(): accept ':directory/' to get at the cache_tree Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vzm9g7duz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > (2) What does this do when the index is unmerged? $ git show : a1: unmerged (f16f906ab60483c100d1241dfc39868de9ec9fcb) a1: unmerged (cf84443e49e1b366fac938711ddf4be2d4d1d9e9) a1: unmerged (fd7923529855d0b274795ae3349c5e0438333979) fatal: ambiguous argument ':': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions We could be a bit nicer, but I think the first three lines speak for themselves. This is all stderr BTW. Ciao, Dscho