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Re: [Bug] for-each-ref: %(object) and %(type) unimplemented

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 25, 2008, 19:38 UTC
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"Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com> writes:
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> 2008/6/25 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:08:15PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>>
>>> Since you seem to be testing for-each-ref, maybe it would make sense to
>>> put together a test script that exercises each of the atoms?
>>
>> Hmm. Actually, there is a test in t6300 that runs with each atom name.
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't bother actually checking the output for
>> sanity, so the fact that these atoms returned the empty string was
>> missed.
>
> The documentation also says "tree" and "parent" should work (which they
> also don't).

The doc does not say any such thing. A tag object does not have 'parent' nor 'tree' header fields.

Neither a commit have 'object' nor 'type' header fields and you cannot ask for them when showing a commit object.

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Message 5 of 11 in “[Bug] for-each-ref: %(object) and %(type) unimplemented”
  1. Lea WiemannJun 25, 2008
  2. Jeff KingJun 25, 2008
  3. Jeff KingJun 25, 2008
  4. Mikael MagnussonJun 25, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2008
  6. Mikael MagnussonJun 25, 2008
  7. Jeff KingJun 26, 2008
  8. 1/2 improve for-each-ref test scriptJeff King, Jun 26, 2008
  9. 2/2 for-each-ref: implement missing tag valuesJeff King, Jun 26, 2008
  10. Jeff KingJun 26, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2008

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