Re: git blame gives an ambiguous short revision

From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Date: Jul 1, 2012, 12:31 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1207010830371.1873@hadrien>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1207010825370.1873@hadrien>

Sorry, I forgot the git version number:

git version 1.7.3.4

on Ubuntu.

julia

On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Julia Lawall wrote:

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> Using linux-next cloned today (July 1), I then checkout out the
> revision 60d5c9f5b.  The command
>
> git blame drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_iw.c -L3675,3675
>
> then gives:
>
> 60d5c9f5 (Julia Lawall 2011-04-01 16:23:42 +0200 3675)  if (!iscan->iscan_ex_params_p) {
>
> Then I try:
>
> git show 60d5c9f5
>
> which gives:
>
> error: short SHA1 60d5c9f5 is ambiguous.
> error: short SHA1 60d5c9f5 is ambiguous.
> fatal: ambiguous argument '60d5c9f5': unknown revision or path not in the
> working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
>
> If I give git blame the -l option, every thing is fine.
>
> thanks,
> julia
>