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[BUG] 'git show' gives duplicate errors for ambiguous args

Subject: [BUG] 'git show' gives duplicate errors for ambiguous args

## tl;dr

One message between Sep 8, 2012 and Sep 8, 2012.

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Ori Avtalion· Sep 8, 2012, 18:43 UTC · lore
With the git.git repository:
  $ git show abcd
  error: short SHA1 abcd is ambiguous.
  error: short SHA1 abcd is ambiguous.
  fatal: ambiguous argument 'abcd': unknown revision or path not in the
working tree.
  Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
The "is ambiguous" message shouldn't be shown twice.

The first error is printed by revision.c:1796 (a call to handle_revision_arg), and the second by revision.c:1808 (a call to verify_filename). I don't see an easy way to suppress it.

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