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[PATCH] notes: Use get_sha1_committish instead of read_ref in init_notes()

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Jun 17, 2015, 01:15 UTC
Message-ID
<1434503731-26414-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org>

init_notes() is essentially the only point of entry to the notes API. It is an arbitrary restriction that all it allows as input is a strict ref name, when callers may want to give an arbitrary committish.

This has the side effect of enabling the use of committish as notes refs in commands allowing them, e.g. git log --notes=foo@{1}, although I haven't checked whether that's the case for all of them.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
---

My motivation for this change is to allow to use init_notes from a third-party helper that links to libgit.a with a commit that is not pointed at directly by a ref. The side effect of making git log --notes=foo@{1} work is nice IMHO. As noted, though, I haven't checked if all code paths using init_notes don't prefilter the ref, but I assume they don't.

 notes.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/notes.c b/notes.c
index df08209..402e4ce 100644
--- a/notes.c
+++ b/notes.c
@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ void init_notes(struct notes_tree *t, const char *notes_ref,
 	t->dirty = 0;
 
 	if (flags & NOTES_INIT_EMPTY || !notes_ref ||
-	    read_ref(notes_ref, object_sha1))
+	    get_sha1_committish(notes_ref, object_sha1))
 		return;
 	if (get_tree_entry(object_sha1, "", sha1, &mode))
 		die("Failed to read notes tree referenced by %s (%s)",
-- 
2.4.3.2.gf0a024e.dirty
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Message 1 of 22 in “notes: Use get_sha1_committish instead of read_ref in init_notes()”
  1. notes: Use get_sha1_committish instead of read_ref in init_notes()Mike Hommey, Jun 17, 2015
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2015
  3. Mike HommeyJun 17, 2015
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2015
  5. Johan HerlandJun 17, 2015
  6. notes: Allow committish expressions as notes refMike Hommey, Jul 8, 2015
  7. notes: Allow committish expressions as notes refMike Hommey, Jul 9, 2015
  8. Johan HerlandJul 10, 2015
  9. notes: Allow treeish expressions as notes refMike Hommey, Jul 10, 2015
  10. Johan HerlandJul 10, 2015
  11. Mike HommeyJul 10, 2015
  12. notes: Allow treeish expressions as notes refMike Hommey, Jul 10, 2015
  13. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2015
  14. Mike HommeyJul 13, 2015
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2015
  16. Mike HommeyOct 8, 2015
  17. notes: allow treeish expressions as notes refMike Hommey, Oct 8, 2015
  18. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2015
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2015
  20. Jeff KingJun 17, 2015
  21. Mike HommeyJun 17, 2015
  22. Jeff KingJun 17, 2015

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