Thanks for that. Not quite sure why yet, but the error message is duplicated. I wonder also if the free() call at the end of the function needs to be duplicated before the early return? Anyway, I am happy to look at this. Would you prefer this to be delivered as a separate patch or can I re-roll it at the base of detached-stash? (I realise I have to re-roll v5 anyway, because some of the later tests don't quite reflect the intent (e.g. ! git stash stash@{0} should be ! git stash drop stash@{0}). jon. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I understand why ref@{time-spec} might behave this way, but I reckon >> that if you ask for ref@{n} for n > N-1, where N is the length of the >> reflog, then you should either get empty output and a non-zero status >> (preferred) or a ref@{N-1} on the output with a status code of zero >> and a warning message (less optimal, IMHO). > > Yeah, the behaviour of ref@{...} syntax parser is way suboptimal: > > $ git rev-parse --verify jch@{99999}; echo $? > warning: Log for 'jch' only has 1368 entries. > cfb88e9a8d4926b0011ae2dd67e1f57a98f4b768 > 0 > > It even knows that it is running off the cut-off point; it should just > cause the caller to notice that fact. I don't think changing it to error > out should cause any harm to existing callers. > > It may just be the matter of doing something like this (totally > untested)... > > sha1_name.c | 12 +++++------- > 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c > index 4af94fa..c1e51c9 100644 > --- a/sha1_name.c > +++ b/sha1_name.c > @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static int get_sha1_1(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1); > > static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1) > { > - static const char *warning = "warning: refname '%.*s' is ambiguous.\n"; > + static const char *warn_msg = "warning: refname '%.*s' is ambiguous.\n"; > char *real_ref = NULL; > int refs_found = 0; > int at, reflog_len; > @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1) > return -1; > > if (warn_ambiguous_refs && refs_found > 1) > - fprintf(stderr, warning, len, str); > + fprintf(stderr, warn_msg, len, str); > > if (reflog_len) { > int nth, i; > @@ -426,14 +426,12 @@ static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1) > if (read_ref_at(real_ref, at_time, nth, sha1, NULL, > &co_time, &co_tz, &co_cnt)) { > if (at_time) > - fprintf(stderr, > - "warning: Log for '%.*s' only goes " > + warning("Log for '%.*s' only goes " > "back to %s.\n", len, str, > show_date(co_time, co_tz, DATE_RFC2822)); > else > - fprintf(stderr, > - "warning: Log for '%.*s' only has " > - "%d entries.\n", len, str, co_cnt); > + return error("Log for '%.*s' only has " > + "%d entries.\n", len, str, co_cnt); > } > } > > -- 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