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From: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Bug report: %h for abbreviated hashes broken after 1.7.1
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
Date: 2010-08-25 06:16:44 GMT (1 year, 24 weeks, 10 hours and 54 minutes ago)
[Added Jonathan back to Cc...]

On 2010.08.25 01:07:28 -0400, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > $ git log --oneline v1.7.2.2..35039ced9296786bc0971bf5385c0d6f6ea5ea1e
> > 35039ce archive: abbreviate substituted commit ids again

That shows that the commit is not in the tag's ancestry.

> Tag v1.7.2.2 is almost a month after 35039ce, so I'm not sure where
> you're going with that, either. It should definitely be part of the
> 1.7.2.2 tarball, but the problem persists.

Maybe it should be, but it isn't. With non-linear histories, commit
dates don't tell you whether one commit is an ancestor of another
commit.

Björn