Re: [PATCHv2] tag: add --points-at list option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2012, 20:20 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1uq61jkz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120207193632.GC32367@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>> I think the following would show the pointed at tag too.
>>   $ git tag my-v1.7.9 v1.7.9
>>   $ ./git-tag -l --points-at v1.7.9
>>   my-v1.7.9
>>   v1.7.9
>> 
>> vs.
>> 
>>   $ ./git-tag -l --points-at v1.7.9
>>   my-v1.7.9
>> 
>> I found that I had to filter matching refnames.
>
> Ah, so you are trying _not_ to show lightweight tags (I thought you
> meant you also wanted to show them)? But I still don't see why the code
> I posted before wouldn't work in that case. The "object" field of v1.7.9
> is not the sha1 of the v1.7.9 tag object, but rather some commit, so it
> would not match.

I think he is trying to avoid saying "v1.7.9 points at itself", and wants to know not just the value of $(rev-parse v1.7.9) but the refname.