Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Kjetil Barvik wrote: > >> --- >> :100644 100644 ae96c64... e6d1d2b... M diff-lib.c > > I wonder what that line is all about, since ... > >> diff-lib.c | 40 +++++++++++----------------------------- >> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/diff-lib.c b/diff-lib.c >> index ae96c64ca209f4df9008198e8a04b160bed618c7..e6d1d2b34147a13aadb5019e0c8336ef5f56ee39 100644 > > ... we have the information right there already. > > Ciao, > Dscho hmmm, I tried the following commands jetil@localhost ~/git/git $ git pull Already up-to-date. kjetil@localhost ~/git/git $ git checkout -q my_origin_maint && grep symcache *.c diff-lib.c: char symcache[PATH_MAX]; diff-lib.c: symcache[0] = '\0'; diff-lib.c: char symcache[PATH_MAX]; diff-lib.c: unpack_cb.symcache[0] = '\0'; diff-lib.c: unpack_cb.symcache[0] = '\0'; kjetil@localhost ~/git/git $ git checkout -q my_origin_master && grep symcache *.c diff-lib.c: char symcache[PATH_MAX]; diff-lib.c: symcache[0] = '\0'; diff-lib.c: char symcache[PATH_MAX]; diff-lib.c: unpack_cb.symcache[0] = '\0'; diff-lib.c: unpack_cb.symcache[0] = '\0'; kjetil@localhost ~/git/git $ git checkout -q my_origin_next && grep symcache *.c diff-lib.c: char symcache[PATH_MAX]; diff-lib.c: symcache[0] = '\0'; diff-lib.c: char symcache[PATH_MAX]; diff-lib.c: unpack_cb.symcache[0] = '\0'; diff-lib.c: unpack_cb.symcache[0] = '\0'; kjetil@localhost ~/git/git $ git checkout -q my_origin_pu && grep symcache *.c diff-lib.c: char symcache[PATH_MAX]; diff-lib.c: symcache[0] = '\0'; diff-lib.c: char symcache[PATH_MAX]; diff-lib.c: unpack_cb.symcache[0] = '\0'; diff-lib.c: unpack_cb.symcache[0] = '\0'; kjetil@localhost ~/git/git $ cd kjetil@localhost ~ $ mkdir git2 kjetil@localhost ~ $ cd git2 kjetil@localhost ~/git2 $ git clone -q git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git kjetil@localhost ~/git2 $ cd git/ kjetil@localhost ~/git2/git $ git show e6d1d2b34147a13aadb5019e0c8336ef5f56ee39 outputs => fatal: bad object e6d1d2b34147a13aadb5019e0c8336ef5f56ee39 kjetil@localhost ~/git2/git $ git show e6d1d2b outputs => fatal: ambiguous argument 'e6d1d2b': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions kjetil@localhost ~/git2/git $ git show -- e6d1d2b outputs => (nothing) Can you explain to a new git user? As far as I can tell, I do not see that this patch is included in the public awailable git tree. Where should the patch be? I can not see it... help! -- kjetil -- 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