On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Geoff Russell
<geoffrey.russell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:36:23AM +0930, Geoff Russell wrote:
> >
> > > > Hmm. Are you sure that the commit you got from HEAD@{"3 minutes ago"}
> > > > actually _has_ the file data/node/node.data? If it doesn't, then you get
> > >
> >
> > > Later today (touch wood) I'll prepare as small a test case as
> > > possible, then send
> > > a tar.gz of the .git directory. Okay?
> >
> > That would be great, thanks.
>
> Attached is tar.gz of working directory (.) - so unpack in a new directory.
>
> git show HEAD@{"N seconds ago"}:data/node/.gitignore
>
> works fine for values of N back to creationof file
>
> But:
>
> git show HEAD@{"N seconds ago"}:data/node/node.newds1
>
> doesn't work for any values of N.
>
> During my attempts to create this example, I managed created a
> directory which where
> the show command failed for both files, but when I changed the commit
> message, the
> show worked for .gitignore but not the node file. Hence my suspicion
> of that the slashes
> in the path are being interpreted as requesting a commit message match ...?
>
> I hope you can track it down, I will install the latest version of git
> later on today to
> confirm the behaviour is still happening.
I just confirmed behaviour is still the same in 1.5.5
Geoff.
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff Russell
>
> >
> > -Peff
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