From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:40:54 GMT
Subject: Re: cat-file: dies with --batch if reflog entry is out of bounds
Message-ID: <xmqqcy2argqh.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <2b07489b-1689-4ecd-9cda-012540fe56e2@app.fastmail.com>

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:

>     $ git cat-file --batch
>     HEAD@{7}
>     <commit>
>     branch@{20}
>     fatal: log for 'branch' only has 5 entries
>     [died]
>
> This is a known limitation.

It is pretty safe to call this a BUG, given that everywhere we seem
to try very hard to diagnose "you asked me about X, but that does
not name anything I know about", as you found out..