From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:02:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace: parse revision argument for -d
Message-ID: <508E4637.2060903@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121029065836.GC5102@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 29.10.2012 07:58:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 03:33:27PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> 
>>  	for (p = argv; *p; p++) {
>> -		if (snprintf(ref, sizeof(ref), "refs/replace/%s", *p)
>> +		q = *p;
>> +		if (get_sha1(q, sha1))
>> +			warning("Failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref; taking it literally.", q);
>> +		else
>> +			q = sha1_to_hex(sha1);
> 
> Doesn't get_sha1 already handle this for 40-byte sha1s (and for anything
> else, it would not work anyway)?

What is "this"???

So far, "git replace -d <rev>" only accepts a full sha1, because it uses
it literally as a ref name "resf/replace/<rev>" without resolving anything.

The patch makes it so that <rev> gets resolved to a sha1 even if it is
abbreviated, and then it gets used.

Or do you mean the warning?

Michael