Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>The only case that this change may make a difference I can think of
>>is when you have a tag object pointed at from outside refs/tags
>>(e.g. refs/heads/foo is a tag object); if you are trying to change
>>the definition of "from_tag" from the current "Is the tip inside
>>refs/tags/?" to "Is the tip either inside refs/tags/ or is it a tag
>>object anywhere?", that may be a good change (I didn't think things
>>through, though), but that shouldn't be hidden inside a commit that
>>claims to only add support for debugging.
>>
>>What problem are you solving?
>
> Sorry, I forgot about that change and failed to mention it.
>
> It makes no difference in the non-debug case which cares about the
> Boolean only. In the debug case, I want to distinguish between
> annotated and lightweight tags, just like describe --debug does. By
> adding 1 via deref and passing this down, I know that an annotated tag
> gets the value 2, a lightweight tag 1 and everything else 0, just like
> describe --tags.
So it sounds like you meant to do something else, and the
implementation is wrong for that something else (i.e. it wouldn't do
the right thing for a tag object outside refs/tags/, with or without
the "--debug" option passed).
>>> @@ -236,7 +273,6 @@ static int name_ref(const char *path, const
>>struct object_id *oid, int flags, vo
>>> }
>>>
>>> add_to_tip_table(oid->hash, path, can_abbreviate_output);
>>> -
>>> while (o && o->type == OBJ_TAG) {
>>> struct tag *t = (struct tag *) o;
>>> if (!t->tagged)
>>
>>This is a patch noise we can do without.
>>
>>Thanks.