"git describe" takes a commit and gives it a name based on tags in
its neighbourhood. The command does take a commit-ish but when
given a tag that points at a commit, it should dereference the tag
before computing the name for the commit.
As the whole processing is internally delegated to name-rev, if we
unwrap tags down to the underlying commit when invoking name-rev, it
will make the name-rev issue an error message based on the unwrapped
object name (i.e. either 40-hex object name, or "$tag^0") that is
different from what the end-user gave to the command when the commit
cannot be described. Introduce an internal option --peel-tag to the
name-rev to tell it to unwrap a tag in its input from the command
line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git name-rev --stdin" has been fixed to convert an object name that
points at a tag to a refname of the tag. The codepath to handle its
command line arguments, however, fed the commit that the tag points
at to the underlying naming machinery.
With this fix, you will get this:
$ git name-rev --refs=tags/\* --name-only $(git rev-parse v1.8.3 v1.8.3^0)
v1.8.3
v1.8.3^0
which is the same as what you would get from the fixed "--stdin" variant:
$ git rev-parse v1.8.3 v1.8.3^0 | git name-rev --refs=tags/\* --name-only
v1.8.3
v1.8.3^0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git name-rev" is supposed to convert given object names into
strings that name the same objects based on refs, that can be fed to
"git rev-parse" to get the same object names back, so the output for
the commit object v1.8.3^0 (i.e. the commit tagged as v1.8.3)
$ git rev-parse v1.8.3 v1.8.3^0 | git name-rev --stdin
8af06057d0edca415256 (tags/v1.8.3^0)
has to have "^0" at the end, as "edca41" is a commit, not the tag
that references it. But we do not get anything for the tag object
(8af0605) itself.
This is because the command however did not bother to see if the
object is at the tip of some ref, and failed to convert a tag
object.
Teach it to show this instead:
$ git rev-parse v1.8.3 v1.8.3^0 | git name-rev --stdin
8af06057d0 (tags/v1.8.3)
edca415256 (tags/v1.8.3^0)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an user wants to filter specific ref using the --refs option,
the pattern needs to match the full ref, e.g. --refs=refs/tags/v1.*.
It'd be convenient to specify a subpath of ref pattern. For
example, --refs=origin/* can find refs/remotes/origin/master by
searching the pattern against its substrings in turn:
refs/remotes/origin/master
remotes/origin/master
origin/master
If it finds a match in a subpath, unambigous part of the ref path will
be removed in the output.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Give each mode of operation (all, from stdin, given commits) its own usage
line to make it easier to see that they are mutually exclusive.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c
builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c
you get
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type]
builtin/ builtin.h
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c
which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.
NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.
So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
