Re: [PATCH] sha1_name: reorganize get_sha1_basic()

> Through the years the functionality to handle @{-N} and @{u} has moved
> around the code, and as a result, code that once made sense, doesn't any
> more.
>
> There is no need to call this function recursively with the branch of
> @{-N} substituted because dwim_{ref,log} already replaces it.
>
> However, there's one corner-case where @{-N} resolves to a detached
> HEAD, in which case we wouldn't get any ref back.
>
> So we parse the nth-prior manually, and deal with it depending on
> weather it's a SHA-1, or a ref.