From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:38:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug in "git rev-parse --verify"
Message-ID: <20130328153808.GB3337@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <515462FB.9040605@alum.mit.edu>

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 04:34:19PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> Is there a simple way to verify an object name more strictly and convert
> it to an SHA1?  I can only think of solutions that require two commands,
> like
> 
>     git cat-file -e $ARG && git rev-parse --verify $ARG

Is the rev-parse line doing anything there? If $ARG does not resolve to
a sha1, then wouldn't cat-file have failed?

-Peff