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From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail•com>
To: "André de Castro" <aramosdecastro@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug report - Apple git
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:32:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5aae11ba-b283-4d04-9336-31d02ff41c93@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C2871318-4745-4481-9199-72D4544ECD5C@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, at 15:23, André de Castro wrote:
> Checked out a branch, ran "git diff --merge-base <some-annotated-tag> HEAD".
>
> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> To see a normal git diff output.
>
> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
> Didn't get a diff output. Got the following error instead:
> "fatal: --merge-base only works with commits"

This works for me on version 2.48.0.  It seems to have been fixed in
2.43.0.  You would have to update to a newer version.

It looks like it was fixed in 4adceb5a299 (diff: fix --merge-base with
annotated tags, 2023-10-01).[1]  The intent of the error message was to
disallow non-commit-ish like trees:

    v2.48.0^{tree}

But it also rejected annotated tags instead of peeling them.

🔗 1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20231001151845.3621551-1-hi@alyssa.is/

  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-13 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-13 14:23 Bug report - Apple git André de Castro
2025-01-13 16:32 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]
     [not found]   ` <B50229FA-0C33-4DFD-B8D9-79F30D616F86@gmail.com>
2025-01-13 16:50     ` André de Castro
2025-01-13 16:35 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2025-01-14 21:57 ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-01-14 22:43   ` Junio C Hamano

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