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Re: git-push: forced update of tag shows unabbreviated SHA1

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 31, 2008, 09:37 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
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> This is just a cosmetical flaw:
> ...
> To file:///home/jsixt/tmp/foo/B/../A
>  + 639669ce44f84417f30842c622064827dda01461...475e55f T -> T (forced update)
>
> Notice that the original SHA1 is not abbreviated.

I suspect that is because you do not _have_ the original object, so there is no uniquely usable abbreviation to name the object in your repository.

This obviously is not tested at all (not even compile tested), but I think it would show you what is going on.

---
 builtin-send-pack.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-send-pack.c b/builtin-send-pack.c
index 8afb1d0..9c558ee 100644
--- a/builtin-send-pack.c
+++ b/builtin-send-pack.c
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ static const char *status_abbrev(unsigned char sha1[20])
 {
 	const char *abbrev;
 	abbrev = find_unique_abbrev(sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV);
-	return abbrev ? abbrev : sha1_to_hex(sha1);
+	return abbrev ? abbrev : "<you do not have it>";
 }
 
 static void print_ok_ref_status(struct ref *ref)
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