Subject: Re: bug#30716: guix pull: error: Git error: unable to parse OID - contains invalid characters when COMMIT-ID is shortened
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Björn Höfling <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:04:58 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Björn,

Björn Höfling <[email-masked]> skribis:

> $>guix pull --commit=d20647722ad36024a3a0b6e1e75c1ba49b9f61dz
> Updating from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> guix pull: error: Git error: unable to parse OID - contains invalid characters

This was actually and out-of-bounds read in Guile-Git (!), now fixed:

  https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git/commit/d37a40de69d727529fe2aebb6afcf362bf8e9ba7

Furthermore, ‘guix pull’ now supports short IDs provided a recent-enough
Guile-Git is available:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=95bd9f65a8ee64d17707a76aebc8720bbd961b68

Thanks,
Ludo’.