Am 24.09.2017 um 03:26 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > I wonder if we want a dedicated helper for them (perhaps about a > dozen callers we have that fall into this pattern?) to call for the > exact purpose, implemented as a thin-wrapper around the > resolve_ref_unsafe() function, though. refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() effectively has seven wrappers already: resolve_ref_unsafe() refs_resolve_refdup() resolve_refdup() refs_read_ref_full() read_ref_full() read_ref() ref_exists() The last one already supplies a dummy SHA1 buffer; for a handful of the others we could add and use variants that do the same. I feel that this API would become a bit crowded, though. René