Re: [PATCH v2] sha1_name: reorganize get_sha1_basic()

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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Through the years the functionality to handle @{-N} and @{u} has moved
> around the code, and as a result, code that once made sense, doesn't any
> more.
>
> There is no need to call this function recursively with the branch of
> @{-N} substituted because dwim_{ref,log} already replaces it.
>
> However, there's one corner-case where @{-N} resolves to a detached
> HEAD, in which case we wouldn't get any ref back.
>
> So we parse the nth-prior manually, and deal with it depending on
> weather it's a SHA-1, or a ref.

Forgot again: Inspired by a patch from Ramkumar Ramachandra.

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Felipe Contreras
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