From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:29:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug in "git rev-parse --verify"
Message-ID: <51567844.7030503@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vk3opr0ke.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 03/30/2013 05:09 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> So why not verify arguments while making sure of their type early
> with 'rev-parse --verify "$userinput^{desiredtype}"?

Yes, that's a better solution in almost all cases.  Thanks for the tip.

(It doesn't change my opinion that the documentation for "rev-parse
--verify" is misleading, but given that you don't appear to want to
change its behavior I will submit a documentation patch.)

Michael

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