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. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> --- sha1_name.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index 0acc6e0..c512c69 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -431,13 +431,14 @@ static inline int upstream_mark(const char *string, int len) } static int get_sha1_1(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1, unsigned lookup_flags); +static int interpret_nth_prior_checkout(const char *name, struct strbuf *buf); static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1) { static const char *warn_msg = "refname '%.*s' is ambiguous."; char *real_ref = NULL; int refs_found = 0; - int at, reflog_len; + int at, reflog_len, nth_prior = 0; if (len == 40 && !get_sha1_hex(str, sha1)) return 0; @@ -447,6 +448,10 @@ static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1) if (len && str[len-1] == '}') { for (at = len-4; at >= 0; at--) { if (str[at] == '@' && str[at+1] == '{') { + if (at == 0 && str[2] == '-') { + nth_prior = 1; + continue; + } if (!upstream_mark(str + at, len - at)) { reflog_len = (len-1) - (at+2); len = at; @@ -460,19 +465,22 @@ static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1) if (len && ambiguous_path(str, len)) return -1; - if (!len && reflog_len) { + if (nth_prior) { struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT; - int ret; - /* try the @{-N} syntax for n-th checkout */ - ret = interpret_branch_name(str, &buf); - if (ret > 0) - /* substitute this branch name and restart */ - return get_sha1_1(buf.buf, buf.len, sha1, 0); - else if (ret == 0) - return -1; + int detached; + + if (interpret_nth_prior_checkout(str, &buf) > 0) { + detached = (buf.len == 40 && !get_sha1_hex(buf.buf, sha1)); + strbuf_release(&buf); + if (detached) + return 0; + } + } + + if (!len && reflog_len) /* allow "@{...}" to mean the current branch reflog */ refs_found = dwim_ref("HEAD", 4, sha1, &real_ref); - } else if (reflog_len) + else if (reflog_len) refs_found = dwim_log(str, len, sha1, &real_ref); else refs_found = dwim_ref(str, len, sha1, &real_ref); -- 1.8.3.rc0.401.g45bba44 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html