Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>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. If you want to only affect debug display, perhaps you should start with a patch like the attached, before adding any debug code as a preparatory step. Then add your debugging thing, _WITHOUT_ the increment in name_rev(), that uses from_tag to choose between lightweight and annotated as a separate step. When we decide that it would make sense to give precedence to annotated ones over lightweight ones in is_better_name(), the comparison can be further tweaked to actually compare values of the from_tag thing in *name and the current candidate. That would have to be a separate step, as it changes the semantics (I suspect it would be a better change but it may not be). How does that sound? -- >8 -- Subject: name-rev: allow to tell annotated and lightweight tags apart We do not use this feature yet, but from_tag that is passed around and kept in the rev_name structure now takes three values, instead of a boolean "did this come from refs/tags/ hierarchy?". A new value '2' is "this is an annotated tag that came from refs/tags/ hierarchy". --- builtin/name-rev.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/name-rev.c b/builtin/name-rev.c index bf7ed015ae..fe2d306e7c 100644 --- a/builtin/name-rev.c +++ b/builtin/name-rev.c @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static int is_better_name(struct rev_name *name, * We know that at least one of them is a non-tag at this point. * favor a tag over a non-tag. */ - if (name->from_tag != from_tag) + if (!!name->from_tag != !!from_tag) return from_tag; /* @@ -247,8 +247,11 @@ static int name_ref(const char *path, const struct object_id *oid, int flags, vo } if (o && o->type == OBJ_COMMIT) { struct commit *commit = (struct commit *)o; - int from_tag = starts_with(path, "refs/tags/"); - + int from_tag; + if (starts_with(path, "refs/tags/")) + from_tag = 1 + deref; + else + from_tag = 0; if (taggerdate == ULONG_MAX) taggerdate = ((struct commit *)o)->date; path = name_ref_abbrev(path, can_abbreviate_output);