On 03/30/2013 05:09 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > So why not verify arguments while making sure of their type early > with 'rev-parse --verify "$userinput^{desiredtype}"? Yes, that's a better solution in almost all cases. Thanks for the tip. (It doesn't change my opinion that the documentation for "rev-parse --verify" is misleading, but given that you don't appear to want to change its behavior I will submit a documentation patch.) Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/ -- 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