On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So...
maybe we need a command:
Given this SHA1, tell me anything you know about it,
Is it a {blob,tree,commit,tag}?
Is it referenced from anywhere else in this repository and if so, which type?
And if it is not referenced, nor an object, tell me so explicitely.
This would have helped a lot for this confusion:
$ git frotz 280c12...
No object exists with such a substring (either as prefix, postfix
or in between)
No other object is referencing any object containing this
substring as pre/post-fix
and this issue would have been resolved in a heartbeat.
Specially the verbose feature is contradicting the terse unix style though
and this command is tailored to this issue, so I don't know if it's any useful
outside this specific problem.
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