These callers appear to expect that deref_tag() is to peel one layer of a tag, but the function does not work that way; it has its own loop to unwrap tags until an object that is not a tag appears. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/blame.c | 6 ++---- line-log.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c index 21f42b0..7417edf 100644 --- a/builtin/blame.c +++ b/builtin/blame.c @@ -2425,8 +2425,7 @@ static struct commit *find_single_final(struct rev_info *revs, struct object *obj = revs->pending.objects[i].item; if (obj->flags & UNINTERESTING) continue; - while (obj->type == OBJ_TAG) - obj = deref_tag(obj, NULL, 0); + obj = deref_tag(obj, NULL, 0); if (obj->type != OBJ_COMMIT) die("Non commit %s?", revs->pending.objects[i].name); if (found) @@ -2461,8 +2460,7 @@ static char *prepare_initial(struct scoreboard *sb) struct object *obj = revs->pending.objects[i].item; if (!(obj->flags & UNINTERESTING)) continue; - while (obj->type == OBJ_TAG) - obj = deref_tag(obj, NULL, 0); + obj = deref_tag(obj, NULL, 0); if (obj->type != OBJ_COMMIT) die("Non commit %s?", revs->pending.objects[i].name); if (sb->final) diff --git a/line-log.c b/line-log.c index bbe31ed..1fbbe4f 100644 --- a/line-log.c +++ b/line-log.c @@ -480,8 +480,7 @@ static struct commit *check_single_commit(struct rev_info *revs) struct object *obj = revs->pending.objects[i].item; if (obj->flags & UNINTERESTING) continue; - while (obj->type == OBJ_TAG) - obj = deref_tag(obj, NULL, 0); + obj = deref_tag(obj, NULL, 0); if (obj->type != OBJ_COMMIT) die("Non commit %s?", revs->pending.objects[i].name); if (commit) -- 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