Error trying to create a git bundle ranged between 2 commits

Question

I am trying to create a bundle file from commit x to commit y. As specified on git bundle's documentation the arguments have to be "acceptable to git rev-parse and git rev-list ..., that specifies the specific objects and references to transport" However, when I run the following command:

git bundle create test.bundle 15b423..6cffeab

I get the error

error: Refusing to create empty bundle.

Then I verified that the commits could be referenced by rev-list and rev-parse:

ana@DESKTOP-K400GGC MINGW64 ~/Projects/TEST1 ((20dc3fd...))
$ git rev-list 15b423b 6cffeab
6cffeabc7e3183fcca8cb8b91eecbf9e0af5a0e7
beb6fb7cfda467433cb2cdab362a25178b1ddf18
458cfcd0064b229f8b416d65405f18732d8c359a
53c90498e13edd32248842b3fd4fb7819041a1d6
ba087013804d4a39b36f3e679548fb45fe9645fb
ad1b1fde27be98b5b09d8e5a43137d16fd6e1840
540da9dea1b816a20be11e5c53b94467449266af
aa64d78ab5c990b047711b9f81fdae13beb27a05
15b423b91a63c403fe0ee0f3365c9846f37f3aa4

ana@DESKTOP-K400GGC MINGW64 ~/Projects/TEST1 ((20dc3fd...))
$ git rev-parse 15b423..6cffeab
6cffeabc7e3183fcca8cb8b91eecbf9e0af5a0e7
^15b423b91a63c403fe0ee0f3365c9846f37f3aa4

Why it doesn't work? How can I create a bundle file that ranges from commit A to commit B ?

Answer 1

From git bundle documentation (under Specifying References): "git bundle will only package references that are shown by git show-ref: this includes heads, tags, and remote heads." So if you added tags to those commits, your command should work.

I do agree that the line that you quoted makes it seem like your command would work, IMHO that's not very clear.