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[PATCH 02/15] handle_revision_arg: simplify commit reference lookups

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 19, 2017, 12:48 UTC
Message-ID
<20170519124846.svasfmiukrm3r7dj@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20170519124651.4q7waz75rmzfopgn@sigill.intra.peff.net>

The "dotdot" range parser avoids calling lookup_commit_reference() if we are directly fed two commits. But its casts are unnecessarily complex; that function will just return a commit we pass into it.

Just calling the function all the time is much simpler, and doesn't do any significant extra work (the object is already parsed, and deref_tag() on a non-tag is a noop; we do incur one extra lookup_object() call, but that's fairly trivial).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 revision.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 014bf52e3..b6031fb35 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1500,12 +1500,8 @@ int handle_revision_arg(const char *arg_, struct rev_info *revs, int flags, unsi
 				struct commit *a, *b;
 				struct commit_list *exclude;
 
-				a = (a_obj->type == OBJ_COMMIT
-				     ? (struct commit *)a_obj
-				     : lookup_commit_reference(a_obj->oid.hash));
-				b = (b_obj->type == OBJ_COMMIT
-				     ? (struct commit *)b_obj
-				     : lookup_commit_reference(b_obj->oid.hash));
+				a = lookup_commit_reference(a_obj->oid.hash);
+				b = lookup_commit_reference(b_obj->oid.hash);
 				if (!a || !b)
 					goto missing;
 				exclude = get_merge_bases(a, b);
-- 
2.13.0.219.g63f6bc368
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  2. 1/2 gitattributes: demonstrate that Git tries to read a bogus fileJohannes Schindelin, May 15, 2017
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  4. Jeff KingMay 16, 2017
  5. Jeff KingMay 16, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2017
  7. Jeff KingMay 17, 2017
  8. Johannes SchindelinMay 18, 2017
  9. Jeff KingMay 19, 2017
  10. 0/15 retain blob info for git diff HEAD:foo HEAD:barJeff King, May 19, 2017
  11. 01/15 handle_revision_arg: reset "dotdot" consistentlyJeff King, May 19, 2017
  12. Philip OakleyMay 20, 2017
  13. Jeff KingMay 23, 2017
  14. Philip OakleyMay 23, 2017
  15. 02/15 handle_revision_arg: simplify commit reference lookupsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  16. 03/15 handle_revision_arg: stop using "dotdot" as a generic pointerJeff King, May 19, 2017
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2017
  18. Jeff KingMay 24, 2017
  19. 04/15 handle_revision_arg: hoist ".." check out of range parsingJeff King, May 19, 2017
  20. 05/15 handle_revision_arg: add handle_dotdot() helperJeff King, May 19, 2017
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2017
  22. 06/15 sha1_name: consistently refer to object_context as "oc"Jeff King, May 19, 2017
  23. 07/15 get_sha1_with_context: always initialize oc->symlink_pathJeff King, May 19, 2017
  24. 08/15 get_sha1_with_context: dynamically allocate oc->pathJeff King, May 19, 2017
  25. 09/15 t4063: add tests of direct blob diffsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  26. 10/15 handle_revision_arg: record modes for "a..b" endpointsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  27. 11/15 handle_revision_arg: record paths for pending objectsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  28. 12/15 diff: pass whole pending entry in blobinfoJeff King, May 19, 2017
  29. 13/15 diff: use the word "path" instead of "name" for blobsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  30. 14/15 diff: use pending "path" if it is availableJeff King, May 19, 2017
  31. 15/15 diff: use blob path for blob/file diffsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  32. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2017
  33. Jeff KingMay 24, 2017

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