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rev-parse fails on objects that contain colon

Subject: rev-parse fails on objects that contain colon

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2 messages between Feb 17, 2013 and Feb 17, 2013.

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Orgad Shaneh· Feb 17, 2013, 08:37 UTC · lore

$ git stash save foo:bar HEAD is now at 9f88dce Foo $ git stash pop foo:bar fatal: Invalid object name 'foo'. $ git rev-parse foo:bar foo:bar fatal: Invalid object name 'foo'.

Tested on Windows (msysGit) and Linux.

- Orgad

Orgad Shaneh· Feb 17, 2013, 08:48 UTC · re: Orgad Shaneh · lore

Re: rev-parse fails on objects that contain colon

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com> wrote:

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> $ git stash save foo:bar
> HEAD is now at 9f88dce Foo
> $ git stash pop foo:bar
> fatal: Invalid object name 'foo'.
> $ git rev-parse foo:bar
> foo:bar
> fatal: Invalid object name 'foo'.
>
> Tested on Windows (msysGit) and Linux.
>
> - Orgad

Oops! stash pop requires explicit stash. Disregard my message...

- Orgad

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