Subject: Re: Unexpected error: short SHA1 is ambiguous

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:02:56 +0200

Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Jay Soffian wrote:
>> 1. Since I restricted to commits with ^0, and there's only one such
>> commit, shouldn't rev-list give me what I want? (rev-parse similarly
>> fails).
>
> No, the ^0 is not restricting anything.  It merely says you want to walk 
> through zero parents from the specified commit, but the commit 
> specification is ambiguous (3 possibilities exist).

But ^0 can only be applied to a commit, and only one commit matches
aabb.

Andreas.

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