On 03/30/2013 08:05 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.
Sounds reasonable to me. I'm not familiar with this code, but your
change looks simple enough. Plus documentation change in
Documentation/revisions.txt, of course.
Thanks,
Michael
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