Re: [PATCH 6/8] add ref_cmp_full_short() comparing full ref name with a short name

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Oct 27, 2007, 22:16 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710271811260.7345@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <11935038084130-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

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> ref_cmp_full_short(full_name, short_name) expands short_name according
> to the rules documented in git-rev-parse and compares the expanded
> name with full_name. It reports a match by returning 0.
> 
> This function makes the rules for resolving refs to sha1s available
> for string comparison. Before this change, the rules were buried in
> get_sha1*() and dwim_ref().
> 
> ref_cmp_full_short() will be used for matching refspecs in git-send-pack.

I think this and ref_matches_abbrev in remote.c should be both be named to be more explicit as to which sets of rules they implement, and should agree on order of arguments.

	-Daniel
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