# [PATCH 5/8] cogito: Simplify recursion in cg-object-id.

1 messages from 2005-09-20 to 2005-09-20. Participants: Pavel Roskin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1875

## Pavel Roskin, 2005-09-20 02:21

Subject: [PATCH 5/8] cogito: Simplify recursion in cg-object-id.
Message-ID: <1127182894.31115.29.camel@dv>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1127182894.31115.29.camel%40dv

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Simplify recursion in cg-object-id.

It's not needed to call the whole cg-object-id script from itself.  It's
sufficient to call normalize_id() from itself.

diff --git a/cg-object-id b/cg-object-id
--- a/cg-object-id
+++ b/cg-object-id
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ normalize_id()
 {
 	local id="$1"
 
 	if [ "${id:(-1):1}" = "^" ]; then
 		# find first parent
-		id=$(cg-object-id "${id%^}") || exit 1
-		normid=$(git-cat-file commit "$id" | \
+		normalize_id "${id%^}"
+		normid=$(git-cat-file commit "$normid" | \
 			 awk '/^parent/{print $2; exit};/^$/{exit}') || exit 1
 		type="commit"
 		return
 	fi
 


-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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