Re: docbook Makefile.nmake query

[Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> > On Aug 31, 2014, at 3:10 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:
> >
> > > docbook/Makefile.nmake was copied from docbook/Makefile.am in g7e4b82a.
> > > It looks like the chmods were added in g7d7a541, perhaps to make sure
> > > the directories are suitable for distribution? They should probably be
> > > removed from Makefile.nmake.
> >
> >         $ git show g7d7a541
> >         fatal: ambiguous argument 'g7d7a541': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
> >
> > What is wrong with the command in question? (Other than "The first token is 'git'." :-))
>
> "g" is used to prefix commits in common usage to distinguish them from
> non-git-related-SHAs (and to make life easier for automated-tool
> authors like Gerald writing the bugzilla/gerrit auto-linking regexes),
> but it isn't recognized by git (which is one of those trivial
> annoyances) so you have to remember to strip it, and do "git show
> 7d7a541".

P.S. You will note that "g" is not actually a hex character, which is
probably why it was choosen :)
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