On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 12:03:22PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > And finally, your 06fa example for me shows behavior that's either > buggy, or I'm just confused. I get: > > $ git rev-parse 06fa^{blob} > error: short SHA1 06fa is ambiguous > hint: The candidates are: > hint: 06fa2b7c2b tag v2.1.4 > hint: 06faa52353 commit 2005-10-18 - 2005-10-18 midnight > hint: 06fac427af blob > hint: 06faf6ba64 tree > > (That 06fac blob comes Junio's refs/notes/amlog). Shouldn't the blob > disambiguator show me just that object? Ah, I see. No, "^{blob}" does not actually pass the blob disambiguator. We only handle committish and treeish right now, and this iteration of the series omits the function to fix that. So I think the principle of this commit is sound without that patch, but your example is not a good one anymore. :) -Peff