An etag, a git ref, and a truncated id: three lookups that answered with the wrong object
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An automated pipeline told me it had pinned a commit. It printed a 40-character hex string. The string was not the commit it had checked out. That is the shape of all three of these. A lookup that has an id for an input does not fail when the id means something else — it returns a different object,…
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An etag, a git ref, and a truncated id: three lookups that answered with the wrong object