Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 05:40:28PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> How did you get that "Not a blob" message? > > When trying to *create* a tree with a commit in it, so instead of giving > the mark for a blob to a filemodify command, giving a mark for a commit. > That is what fails with "Not a blob". Ah, I see what you were trying now. It's complaining that the data and mode don't match up. See <mode> under 'filemodify' in the manual. Something like M 160000 :1 mycommit should work fine, though that's a pretty ugly workaround for the inability to do ls :1 [...] >> I think a good fix would be to teach parse_ls a mode with no <path> >> parameter. Something like this (untested; needs cleanup and tests): > > This would make both your commands output the same thing, right? It > wouldn't help my case :) It's easily possible my patch has a typo somewhere, but the expected output format would be commit 6066a7eac4b2bcdb86971783b583e4e408b32e81 That wouldn't help? Puzzled, Jonathan -- 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