Dan,
On 7/4/21 12:55 AM, Dan Robertson wrote:
> Alex,
>
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 11:31:32PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 08:44:53PM -0400, Dan Robertson wrote:
>>>>>> Fix a typo in the documentation of using fallocate to allocate shared
>>>>>> blocks. The flag FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE should instead be documented as
>>>>>> FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE_RANGE.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fixes: 07c7a6a35497 ("man2/fallocate.2: Document behavior with shared blocks")
>>>>
>>>> BTW, I can't find that commit hash in git. I have that commit as
>>>> 63a599c657d8.
>>>>
>>>> However, git doesn't fail... It's weird. Could you confirm that?
>>>
>>> Gah! You are correct. My bad. I used copied the commit hash for the commit in
>>> the kernel that introduced the FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE_RANGE flag. My bad.
>>
>> I thought so, but I couldn't find that commit in Linus' tree either :/
>>
>> [
>> .../linux$ git log -1 07c7a6a35497
>> fatal: ambiguous argument '07c7a6a35497': unknown revision or path not
>> in the working tree.
>> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
>> 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
>> .../linux$ git log -1 07c7a6a35497 --
>> fatal: bad revision '07c7a6a35497'
>> .../linux$ cd ../man-pages/
>> .../man-pages$ git log -1 07c7a6a35497
>> .../man-pages$ git log -1 07c7a6a35497 --
>> .../man-pages$
>> ]
>>
>> I can't understand that. It fails in the kernel tree, but not in the
>> man-pages tree. But it doesn't find it in either.
>>
>> It doesn't matter, but I'm curious...
>
> Ah! Got it! 07c7a6a35497 is the tree hash for 63a599c657d8 in the man-pages
> repo.
>
> .../man-pages$ git rev-parse --short=12 63a599c657d8:
> 07c7a6a35497
>
> I bet I copied the wrong hash from git blame in vim-fugitive when trying to
> find the commit that first contained the typo.
Hmm, interesting. I didn't knew about tree hashes (well, I guessed
there was something like that, but I had never seen them). I learnt
something new today :)
Cheers,
Alex
>
>>
>>> I can
>>> submit a second version of the patch with the correct commit hash if you'd like.
>>
>> No, don't worry; I fixed it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Dan
>
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
