HEAD~n is often used for rebase invocations etc. Make it use the same
default we use in other places, i.e. ~n == HEAD~n.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I haven't checked the side effects but find this super useful. Stop
me right now if this is a bad idea...
An alternative patch subject for this would have been:
sha1_name: We don't need no hg revision numbers, stupid!
---
sha1_name.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 69cd6c8..5d52eac 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -480,7 +480,10 @@ static int get_nth_ancestor(const char *name, int len,
struct commit *commit;
int ret;
- ret = get_sha1_1(name, len, sha1);
+ if (len)
+ ret = get_sha1_1(name, len, sha1);
+ else
+ ret = get_sha1("HEAD", sha1);
if (ret)
return ret;
commit = lookup_commit_reference(sha1);
--
1.7.5.250.g4493b
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