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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sha1_name.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 314e25da73..1707d451b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. object of that type is found or the object cannot be dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf). '<rev>{caret}0' is a short-hand for '<rev>{caret}\{commit\}'. ++ +'rev{caret}\{object\}' can be used to make sure 'rev' names an +object that exists, without requiring 'rev' to be a tag, and +without dereferencing 'rev'; because a tag is already an object, +it does not have to be dereferenced even once to get to an object. '<rev>{caret}\{\}', e.g. 'v0.99.8{caret}\{\}':: A suffix '{caret}' followed by an empty brace pair diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index 2fbda48e02..3820f28ae7 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ struct object *peel_to_type(const char *name, int namelen, while (1) { if (!o || (!o->parsed && !parse_object(o->sha1))) return NULL; - if (o->type == expected_type) + if (expected_type == OBJ_ANY || o->type == expected_type) return o; if (o->type == OBJ_TAG) o = ((struct tag*) o)->tagged; @@ -645,6 +645,8 @@ static int peel_onion(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1) expected_type = OBJ_TREE; else if (!strncmp(blob_type, sp, 4) && sp[4] == '}') expected_type = OBJ_BLOB; + else if (!prefixcmp(sp, "object}")) + expected_type = OBJ_ANY; else if (sp[0] == '}') expected_type = OBJ_NONE; else if (sp[0] == '/') @@ -654,6 +656,8 @@ static int peel_onion(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1) if (expected_type == OBJ_COMMIT) lookup_flags = GET_SHA1_COMMITTISH; + else if (expected_type == OBJ_TREE) + lookup_flags = GET_SHA1_TREEISH; if (get_sha1_1(name, sp - name - 2, outer, lookup_flags)) return -1; |