Something like foo@{-1} is nonsensical, as the @{-N} syntax is reserved for "the Nth last branch", and is not an actual reflog selector. We should not feed such nonsense to approxidate at all. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- We didn't discuss this one, but I came across it while trying to be complete in testing the combinations. Right now "foo@{-1}" is interpreted as a reflog entry at approxidate "-1". Approxidate doesn't signal an error because it thinks it has found something useful. But AFAIK we have declared all @{-...} to be Nth last branch, so it is simply a semantic error. Let me know if that is not the case (that is, if it was intentional to leave foo@{-1} as the reflog at date "-1" because it has some meaning that I am missing) and we can drop this patch. sha1_name.c | 4 ++++ t/t1508-at-combinations.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index 00fc415..7729925 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -399,6 +399,10 @@ static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1) unsigned long co_time; int co_tz, co_cnt; + /* a @{-N} placed anywhere except the start is an error */ + if (str[at+2] == '-') + return -1; + /* Is it asking for N-th entry, or approxidate? */ for (i = nth = 0; 0 <= nth && i < reflog_len; i++) { char ch = str[at+2+i]; diff --git a/t/t1508-at-combinations.sh b/t/t1508-at-combinations.sh index 2a46af2..d5d6244 100755 --- a/t/t1508-at-combinations.sh +++ b/t/t1508-at-combinations.sh @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ check "@{u}" upstream-two check "@{u}@{1}" upstream-one check "@{-1}@{u}" master-two check "@{-1}@{u}@{1}" master-one -fail nonsense "@{u}@{-1}" +nonsense "@{u}@{-1}" nonsense "@{1}@{u}" test_done -- 1.7.0.rc0.41.g538720 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html