From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in "git rev-parse --verify"
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:38:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130328163848.GA7194@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5154672F.10303@alum.mit.edu>
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 04:52:15PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> On 03/28/2013 04:38 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 04:34:19PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a simple way to verify an object name more strictly and convert
> >> it to an SHA1? I can only think of solutions that require two commands,
> >> like
> >>
> >> git cat-file -e $ARG && git rev-parse --verify $ARG
> >
> > Is the rev-parse line doing anything there? If $ARG does not resolve to
> > a sha1, then wouldn't cat-file have failed?
>
> It's outputting the SHA1, which cat-file seems incapable of providing in
> a useful way.
Ah, I see; I was looking too much at your example, and not thinking
about how you would want to use it in a script.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-28 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-28 13:04 Bug in "git rev-parse --verify" Michael Haggerty
2013-03-28 14:05 ` Jeff King
2013-03-28 14:55 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <CAPc5daUqzz=9TBmj2Q0MHqEc6gMHxXoGr9+JV3hq76zDKJAyCw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-28 15:34 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-03-28 15:38 ` Jeff King
2013-03-28 15:52 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-03-28 16:38 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-03-28 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-30 3:44 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-03-30 4:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-30 4:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-30 5:29 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-03-30 6:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-30 7:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-30 8:09 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-03-30 8:14 ` Elia Pinto
2013-03-31 22:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] peel_onion: disambiguate to favor tree-ish when we want a tree-ish Junio C Hamano
2013-03-31 22:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] peel_onion(): teach $foo^{object} peeler Junio C Hamano
2013-04-02 8:20 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-04-02 15:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-02 16:32 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-04-02 16:56 ` Junio C Hamano
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