Re: [BUG?] git rebase not accepting :/ syntax

2012-09-10 Thread Yann Dirson
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:54:49 +0200 Andreas Schwab sch...@linux-m68k.org wrote: Yann Dirson dir...@bertin.fr writes: In 1.7.10.3, git rebase -i :/Merge will complain with: fatal: Needed a single revision invalid upstream :/Merge ... whereas git rev-parse :/Merge has no problem

Re: [BUG?] git rebase not accepting :/ syntax

2012-09-10 Thread Joachim Schmitz
Yann Dirson wrote: On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:54:49 +0200 ... BTW, git-rebase.sh seems to be quite inconsistent on the use of $() vs. ``, not to mention the clear preference stated in CodingGuidelines. There are still quite a few more places in *.sh where `cmd`is used instead of $(cmd):

[BUG?] git rebase not accepting :/ syntax

2012-09-07 Thread Yann Dirson
In 1.7.10.3, git rebase -i :/Merge will complain with: fatal: Needed a single revision invalid upstream :/Merge ... whereas git rev-parse :/Merge has no problem resolving to a single revision. OTOH, git rebase -i HEAD^{/Merge} does work, and rev-parse resolves it to the same commit. Is that

Re: [BUG?] git rebase not accepting :/ syntax

2012-09-07 Thread Andreas Schwab
Yann Dirson dir...@bertin.fr writes: In 1.7.10.3, git rebase -i :/Merge will complain with: fatal: Needed a single revision invalid upstream :/Merge ... whereas git rev-parse :/Merge has no problem resolving to a single revision. git rebase actually calls git rev-parse :/Merge^0, which