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[PATCH] Offload most of cg-object-id to git-rev-parse

From
Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date
Dec 7, 2005, 21:39 UTC
Message-ID
<20051207213905.GA25890@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>

--- commit 964e5ec2dd0ff3b073fbb9f3ad6f11c640a96a04 tree 97f861c24303936f012523a54f3d53f4939ebf52 parent 554014e31b92c98b35f77b80b19f5b21e8a76cfc author Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:44:26 +0100 committer Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@antimatter.localdomain> Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:44:26 +0100

 TODO         |    2 --
 cg-object-id |   29 +++++++++--------------------
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 0658b39..26bb4d0 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ cg-*patch should be pre-1.0.)
 
 	Includes merge-order cg-log and cg-diff checking for renames.
 
-* Offload most of cg-object-id to git-rev-parse
-
 * Show only first 12 (or so) nibbles of the hashes everywhere
 	Even this might be too much, but more than this is really useless
 	for anyone remotely human. And it's less scary, too.
diff --git a/cg-object-id b/cg-object-id
index ec0362a..c7efa8a 100755
--- a/cg-object-id
+++ b/cg-object-id
@@ -40,27 +40,16 @@ deprecated_alias cg-object-id commit-id 
 normalize_id()
 {
 	local id="$1"
+	local revid=
+	local valid=
 
-	if [ "${id:(-1):1}" = "^" ]; then
-		# find first parent
-		normalize_id "${id%^}"
-		normid=$(git-cat-file commit "$normid" | \
-			 awk '/^parent/{print $2; exit};/^$/{exit}') || exit 1
-		type="commit"
-		return
-	fi
-
-	if [ ! "$id" ] || [ "$id" = "this" ] || [ "$id" = "HEAD" ]; then
-		read id < "$_git/$(git-symbolic-ref HEAD)"
-
-	elif [ -r "$_git/refs/tags/$id" ]; then
-		read id < "$_git/refs/tags/$id"
-
-	elif [ -r "$_git/refs/heads/$id" ]; then
-		read id < "$_git/refs/heads/$id"
+	if [ ! "$id" ] || [ "$id" = "this" ]; then
+		id=HEAD;
+	fi
 
-	elif [ -r "$_git/refs/$id" ]; then
-		read id < "$_git/refs/$id"
+	revid="$(git-rev-parse --verify "$id^0" 2>/dev/null)"
+	if [ "$revid" ]; then
+		id="$revid"
 
 	# Short id's must be lower case and at least 4 digits.
 	elif [[ "$id" == [0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]* ]]; then
@@ -146,7 +135,7 @@ fi
 
 
 if [ "$show_parent" ]; then
-	git-cat-file commit "$normid" | awk '/^parent/{print $2};/^$/{exit}'
+	git-rev-parse "$normid^"
 	exit 0
 fi
 
-- 
Jonas Fonseca
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  1. Offload most of cg-object-id to git-rev-parseJonas Fonseca, Dec 7, 2005
  2. Offload most of cg-object-id to git-rev-parseJonas Fonseca, Dec 11, 2005
  3. cg-object-id: use git-rev-parse(1) for date parsingJonas Fonseca, Dec 11, 2005

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