Re: [PATCH] rev-parse: Identify short sha1 sums correctly.

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

James Bowes [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

find_short_packed_object was not loading the pack index files.
Teach it to do so.

Signed-off-by: James Bowes <redacted>

I think this is the proper fix of the problem I was unhappy
about with 'next'

Actually this bug is exactly the reason why I *always* run 'next'
in production use on all of my systems, and why I also get a number
of coworkers to run it.  Many people beating on the same code in
weird ways notice things.

Today I found this because I have a shell script that tried to
do something of the form "git checkout v1.8.0-18-g18as1f' and Git
couldn't believe that was a revision...  It held up day-job work
for an hour while I tracked it down, but I did catch it.  ;-)

-- 
Shawn.