GNU bug report logs - #30716
guix pull: error: Git error: unable to parse OID - contains invalid characters when COMMIT-ID is shortened

Previous Next

Full log

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling <at> bjoernhoefling.de>
To: <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: guix pull: error: Git error: unable to parse OID - contains invalid
 characters when COMMIT-ID is shortened
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 21:29:12 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Guix pull has the wrong error message when the commit-id for the
"--commit" parameter is too short:

$>guix pull --commit=d20647722ad36024a3a0b6e1e75c1ba49b9f61d
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

Instead of that error-message it should complain that the OID is too
short.

Even better, it should just accept a shortened OID and use it, as long
as it is unique.

Note: When there really is a wrong character used, this error message
is also correctly shown:

$>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


Note: If the OID is long enough and well-formed, but just non-existent,
the error message is adequately correct:

$> guix pull --commit=d20647722ad36024a3a0b6e1e75c1ba49b9f61dd 
Updating from Git repository at 
'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... guix pull: error: Git
error: object not found - no match for id
(d20647722ad36024a3a0b6e1e75c1ba49b9f61dd)


Björn

[Message part 2 (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.