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-rw-r--r--Documentation/revisions.txt5
-rw-r--r--sha1_name.c4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 013f0de798..e82a4db61c 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
object of that type is found or the object cannot be
dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf). '<rev>{caret}0'
is a short-hand for '<rev>{caret}\{commit\}'.
++
+'rev{caret}\{object\}' can be used to make sure 'rev' names an
+object that exists, without requiring 'rev' to be a tag, and
+without dereferencing 'rev'; because a tag is already an object,
+it does not have to be dereferenced even once to get to an object.
'<rev>{caret}\{\}', e.g. 'v0.99.8{caret}\{\}'::
A suffix '{caret}' followed by an empty brace pair
diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 45788df8bf..85b6e75741 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ struct object *peel_to_type(const char *name, int namelen,
while (1) {
if (!o || (!o->parsed && !parse_object(o->sha1)))
return NULL;
- if (o->type == expected_type)
+ if (expected_type == OBJ_ANY || o->type == expected_type)
return o;
if (o->type == OBJ_TAG)
o = ((struct tag*) o)->tagged;
@@ -645,6 +645,8 @@ static int peel_onion(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
expected_type = OBJ_TREE;
else if (!strncmp(blob_type, sp, 4) && sp[4] == '}')
expected_type = OBJ_BLOB;
+ else if (!prefixcmp(sp, "object}"))
+ expected_type = OBJ_ANY;
else if (sp[0] == '}')
expected_type = OBJ_NONE;
else if (sp[0] == '/')