Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> What we may want is another type peeling operator, ^{object}.
> that makes sure it is an object, like this:
>
> rev-parse --verify 572a535454612a046e7dd7404dcca94d6243c788^{object}
>
> It asks "I have this 40-hex; I want an object out of it", just like
> frotz^{tree} is "I have 'frotz'; I want a tree-ish" for any value of
> 'frotz'.
>
> With that, a use case that it wants to see _any_ object can safely
> use 'rev-parse --verify "$userinput^{object}' without an annotated
> tag getting in the way.
>
> How does that sound?
Perhaps something like this. Note that the last hunk is unrelated
thinko-fix I noticed while browsing the code.
-- >8 --
Subject: sha1_name.c: ^{object} peeler
A string that names an object can be suffixed with ^{type} peeler to
say "I have this object name; peel it until you get this type. If
you cannot do so, it is an error". v1.8.2^{commit} asks for a commit
that is pointed at an annotated tag v1.8.2; v1.8.2^{tree} unwraps it
further to the top-level tree object. A special suffix ^{} (i.e. no
type specified) means "I do not care what it unwraps to; just peel
annotated tag until you get something that is not a tag".
When you have a random user-supplied string, you can turn it to a
bare 40-hex object name, and cause it to error out if such an object
does not exist, with:
git rev-parse --verify "$userstring^{}"
for most objects, but this does not yield the tag object name when
$userstring refers to an annotated tag.
Introduce a new suffix, ^{object}, that only makes sure the given
name refers to an existing object. Then
git rev-parse --verify "$userstring^{object}"
becomes a way to make sure $userstring refers to an existing object.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
---
sha1_name.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index c50630a..85b6e75 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;
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