On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Earlier, a230949 (am --rebasing: get patch body from commit, not > from mailbox, 2012-06-26) learned to regenerate patch body from the > commit object while rebasing, instead of reading from the rebase-am > front-end. While doing so, it used "git diff-tree" but without > giving it the "--full-index" option. > > This does not matter for in-repository objects; during rebasing, any > abbreviated object name should uniquely identify them. > > But we may be rebasing a commit that contains a change to a gitlink, > in which case we usually should not have the object (it names a > commit in the submodule). A full object name is necessary to later > reconstruct a fake ancestor index for them.
>From what I can understand, this all makes sense. I didn't notice the emails about the breakage until now, but I wouldn't have known where to even start looking anyway, so thanks a lot for taking care of it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
