From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:17:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] gitk fails with argument that is both existing directory and branch name
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707031514160.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707032248570.4071@racer.site>



On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> Umm. Why don't you just use gitk linus/master..fixes? This is how we teach 
> people to use rev-list anyway.

No, Uwe is right. There's a bug somewhere.

This _should_ work:

	# create a fake 'gitk' branch if you don't have one already
	git branch gitk master

	# This should look at the 'gitk' branch
	gitk gitk --

but it doesn't. It just hangs for me.

It seems to be some fairly recent gitk bug, too, because I'm pretty sure 
it _used_ to work.

I checked, and "git rev-list" works fine:

	git rev-list --default HEAD gitk

fails correctly with

	fatal: ambiguous argument 'gitk': both revision and filename
	Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions

and the way to get it to work as a branch-name is to do

	git rev-list --default HEAD gitk --

which works fine.

			Linus