Re: [PATCH 4/4] describe/name-rev: tell name-rev to peel the incoming object to commit first

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:33:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >   1. Behave more or less the same between "git name-rev $sha1" and "echo
> >      $sha1 | git name-rev --stdin". Your patch improves that. Though I
> >      note that --peel-to-commit does not affect --stdin at all. Should
> >      it? And of course the two differ in that the command line will take
> >      any rev-parse expression, and --stdin only looks for full sha1s.
> 
> To "Should it?", I do not deeply care.  "--peel-to-commit" is an
> exception that only is needed to support "describe".
> 
> I could instead have tucked "^0" at the end of each argument when
> "describe" calls out to "name-rev" without adding this new option,
> which is much much closer to what is really going on.

Yeah, I tend to think that is a more sane interface, even though it is a
little more work in git-describe.

Although I am still not clear on why it would not be up to the caller of
git-describe in the first place to decide which they wanted.

-Peff