Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I was wasn't convinced that the tag dereferencing was the only > difference between lookup_commit_reference() and > lookup_commit(). lookup_commit() calls lookup_object() and if the > object is not in the parsed objects hash table it creates a new commit > object with the given oid without checking if the object > exists. lookup_commit_reference() calls parse_object() which handles > replacement objects and checks the object actually exists. Yes, I agree that both parse_object() and lookup_commit() are needed, and the combo is preferred over lookup_commit_reference(). THanks.
