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Re: [BUG] gitk fails with argument that is both existing directory and branch name

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 3, 2007, 21:55 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0707032248570.4071@racer.site>
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<20070703202301.GA24071@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Hi,
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
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> 	zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git rev-list ^linus/master fixes
> 	fatal: ambiguous argument 'fixes': both revision and filename
> 	Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions
> 
> but 
> 	
> 	gitk ^linus/master fixes --

Umm. Why don't you just use gitk linus/master..fixes? This is how we teach people to use rev-list anyway.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 2 of 9 in “[BUG] gitk fails with argument that is both existing directory and branch name”
  1. Uwe Kleine-KönigJul 3, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinJul 3, 2007
  3. Linus TorvaldsJul 3, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinJul 3, 2007
  5. gitk: fix for "gitk <ambiguous-name> --"Johannes Schindelin, Jul 3, 2007
  6. Gerrit PapeJul 4, 2007
  7. Uwe Kleine-KönigJul 4, 2007
  8. Paul MackerrasJul 4, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 4, 2007

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