Re: [PATCH] Warn when calling deref_tag() on broken tags

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:21:01AM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > Good idea. Not that I would be excited by the awing elegancy of the
> > patch...
> 
> It turns out to be not so good idea.  Some places call deref_tag
> just to see if we can unwrap it but not having the referenced
> object but having the tag object does not necessarily mean a
> corrupt repository.

Aha, that didn't occur to me initially. Yes, what you did is fine by me
(not that I would be overly proficient in this part of code).

> diff --git a/tag.c b/tag.c
> index b1ab75f..e574c4b 100644
> --- a/tag.c
> +++ b/tag.c
> @@ -3,10 +3,15 @@
>  
>  const char *tag_type = "tag";
>  
> -struct object *deref_tag(struct object *o)
> +struct object *deref_tag(struct object *o, const char *warn, int warnlen)
>  {
>  	while (o && o->type == tag_type)
>  		o = parse_object(((struct tag *)o)->tagged->sha1);
> +	if (!o && warn) {
> +		if (!warnlen)
> +			warnlen = strlen(warn);
> +		error("missing object referenced by '%.*s'", warnlen, warn);
> +	}
>  	return o;
>  }
>  

It should still be a warning, not an error, though. I'd also mention the
"tag" keyword in the message.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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