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Subject: Re: searching for git commit hash
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:52:12 -0300
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar sep 25 19:10:09 -0300 2012:
> Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> writes:

> > ./src/tools/git_changelog --since '2012-09-14 00:00:00' --oldest-firs=
t --details-after
> > fatal: ambiguous argument 'master..origin/REL9_2_STABLE': unknown rev=
ision or path not in the working tree.
> > Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
> > git log --format=3Dfuller --date=3Diso --since=3D2012-09-14 00:00:00 =
--parents
> > master..origin/REL9_2_STABLE failed at ./src/tools/git_changelog line
> > 141.
>=20
> That is a bit odd though, since it seems to be failing in mainline code
> that's not dependent on any options at all.  What version of git do you
> have?

I remember having it fail in a similar way (don't really recall exactly)
when I tried to run it in a clone that didn't have all branches (I had
deleted them per the instructions in the wiki).  Once I restored them,
it started working.

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