Re: [PATCH] git-show: grok blobs, trees and tags, too

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 14, 2006, 10:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612141156290.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b7i92ez.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > +			ret = show_object(o->sha1, 1);
> > +			objects[i].item = (struct object *)t->tagged;
> > +			i--;
> > +			break;
> 
> Good hack ;-).

Tail recursion ;-)

It has a nice side effect, too: the _name_ of the object is not changed, so if you show a tag which references a tree, you will see the name of the tag as if it were the name of the tree.

Ciao, Dscho