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Re: Bug in "git rev-parse --verify"

From
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Mar 28, 2013, 15:52 UTC
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On 03/28/2013 04:38 PM, Jeff King wrote:
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> 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?

It's outputting the SHA1, which cat-file seems incapable of providing in a useful way.

Michael
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