From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:52:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug in "git rev-parse --verify"
Message-ID: <5154672F.10303@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20130328153808.GB3337@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 03/28/2013 04:38 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> 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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