On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:02:14AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > $ git clone https://github.com/fmitha/SICL > cd SICL > $ git show 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4dd0 > fatal: bad object 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4dd0 > $ git show 12323213123 # just to be sure to have a different error > message for non existing objects. > fatal: ambiguous argument '12323213123': unknown revision or path not > in the working tree. I think 40 hex characters is special cased. Using CGit as a repository with a submodule so I can easily get an unrelated SHA1 and short name: cgit $ git show $(git -C git rev-parse @) fatal: bad object bb8577532add843833ebf8b5324f94f84cb71ca0 cgit $ git show $(git -C git rev-parse --short @) fatal: ambiguous argument 'bb85775': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]' -- 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