Re: [PATCH] Support tags in uncommit - use git_id instead of rev_parse

> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 21:35 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>
> > Without this patch, the 'stg uncommit -t patch' fails with 'Unknown
> > revision: patch'. With the patch applied, it still fails but with
> > 'Commit ... does not have exactly one parent'. I don't say that the
> > first one is good but I don't think the latter is clearer. The 'stg
> > uncommit --help' states that the '--to' option takes a commit argument
> > but if one passes a patch name the error message gets pretty
> > confusing.
>
> Actually, 'Commit ... does not have exactly one parent' means that stg
> misinterpreted the patch name as some non-existing hash and started
> iterating back until it hit the first merge.
>
> Perhaps stgit should make sure that the hash is valid before walking the
> commit tree.  If it's not, stgit could provide a better message.