From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:07:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add merge detection to git-cvsimport
Message-ID: <20050816110725.GL11882MdfPADPa@garage.linux.student.kuleuven.ac.be>
In-Reply-To: <20050816103527.F420A33010C@ng.eduforge.org>

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:35:27PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> +
> +sub get_headref($$) {

If you want to check whether a ref is valid, then
it is better to use git-rev-parse...

> +    my $name    = shift;
> +    my $git_dir = shift; 
> +    my $sha;
> +    
> +    if (open(C,"$git_dir/refs/heads/$name")) {
> +	chomp($sha = <C>);
> +	close(C);
> +	length($sha) == 40
> +	    or die "Cannot get head id for $name ($sha): $!\n";

... but if you're just going to die, then why not simply
let git-commit-tree do the test ?

> +				if ($mparent eq 'HEAD') { $mparent = 'origin'};

Please don't hardcode 'origin' here.

skimo