N.B. This problem has vanished -- which means its probably something I
messed up. I haven't
worked out what yet, but I will. Apologies for any time wasted.
Cheers,
Geoff.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Geoff Russell
<geoffrey.russell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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