I accidentally ran into this today:
$ git cherry-pick 1147
fatal: BUG: expected exactly one commit from walk
git log shows no output:
$ git log 1147
Neither of these are very helpful or reassuring. I tried a few things
but I haven't looked the code yet. I found lots of inconsistencies
along the way.
$ git clone https://github.com/git/git
$ cd git
$git log 114
fatal: ambiguous argument '114': unknown revision or path not in the
working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
$ git checkout 114
error: pathspec '114' did not match any file(s) known to git.
$ git merge 114
fatal: '114' does not point to a commit
$ git cherry-pick 114
fatal: ambiguous argument '114': unknown revision or path not in the
working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
$ git checkout 1147
fatal: reference is not a tree: 1147
$ git merge 1147
error: 1147: expected commit type, but the object dereferences to blob type
fatal: '1147' does not point to a commit
$ git cherry-pick 1147
fatal: BUG: expected exactly one commit from walk
$ git log 1147
$ git checkout 1146
error: short SHA1 1146 is ambiguous.
error: pathspec '1146' did not match any file(s) known to git.
$ git merge 1146
error: short SHA1 1146 is ambiguous.
fatal: '1146' does not point to a commit
$ git cherry-pick 1146
error: short SHA1 1146 is ambiguous.
error: short SHA1 1146 is ambiguous.
fatal: ambiguous argument '1146': unknown revision or path not in the
working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
$ git log 1146
error: short SHA1 1146 is ambiguous.
error: short SHA1 1146 is ambiguous.
fatal: ambiguous argument '1146': unknown revision or path not in the
working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
I can understand some of the inconsistent error reporting (checkout
may expect filenames, but cherry-pick and merge do not). But this
seems too varied to me.
And the first two look like bugs.
Any comments or suggestions?
Phil
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