[PATCH v4 09/21] object-file.c: don't set "typep" when returning non-zero

When the loose_object_info() function returns an error stop faking up the "oi->typep" to OBJ_BAD. Let the return value of the function itself suffice. This code cleanup simplifies subsequent changes.

That we set this at all is a relic from the past. Before 052fe5eaca9 (sha1_loose_object_info: make type lookup optional, 2013-07-12) we would always return the type_from_string(type) via the parse_sha1_header() function, or -1 (i.e. OBJ_BAD) if we couldn't parse it.

Then in a combination of 46f034483eb (sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type, 2015-05-03) and b3ea7dd32d6 (sha1_loose_object_info: handle errors from unpack_sha1_rest, 2017-10-05) our API drifted even further towards conflating the two again.

Having read the code paths involved carefully I think this is OK. We are just about to return -1, and we have only one caller: do_oid_object_info_extended(). That function will in turn go on to return -1 when we return -1 here.

This might be introducing a subtle bug where a caller of oid_object_info_extended() would inspect its "typep" and expect a meaningful value if the function returned -1.

Such a problem would not occur for its simpler oid_object_info() sister function. That one always returns the "enum object_type", which in the case of -1 would be the OBJ_BAD.

Having read the code for all the callers of these functions I don't believe any such bug is being introduced here, and in any case we'd likely already have such a bug for the "sizep" member (although blindly checking "typep" first would be a more common case).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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