Jeff King wrote:
> Yes, that should work as long as the file is modified and not added. You
> can also say "4d77a3cee^:A/B/C" if you do not want to look up the parent
> id yourself.
Thanks, that's useful to know.
> Note that for a merge commit with multiple parents, the question is more
> complex, as there are two previous states that are merged.
This is not the case in the one I am currently looking at. There is a single
parent commit.
> You say that it doesn't work in one particular case. What is that case?
> What happens?
Here is an example. Grab this repository:
git clone git://github.com/qca/open-plc-utils.git
cd open-plc-utils/
Look at this commit:
git log --name-status f51ac745a6d4087cc4d77a3cee01db0412955c79
and notice that one of the files modified is "pib/chkpib2.7", so lets
look at the parent version of that file:
git show f51ac745a6d4087cc4d77a3cee01db0412955c79^:pib/chkpib2.7
which produces no output and exits with 0 status.
However looking at the diff for commit f51ac745a suggests that while
the file pib/chkpib2.7 may have existed before that commit, it must
have been empty (ie zero length).
Does this explanation make sense?
Erik
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