Subject: Re: git archive problem with 1.6.0.3 (maybe regression?)

From: Charles Bailey <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:37:10 +0000

Alessandro Guido wrote:
> [please CC: me on replies]
> 
> Hi everybody.
> 
> With git 1.6.0.3, I get the  following error when trying to "git archive" on a 
> bare clone of the Linux kernel repo:
> 
> ~ $ cd Kernel/
> ~/Kernel $ ls
> branches  config  description  FETCH_HEAD  HEAD  hooks  info  logs  objects  
> packed-refs  refs
> ~/Kernel $ git archive 721d5df > /dev/null
> fatal: Not a valid object name
> 
> With git 1.6.0.2, on the same tree, it works fine.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=ddff8563510a2c5c675d488a02e2642306430fc1