This adds '-e' option to git-cat-file, to test for the existence
of the object.
This also cleans up the option-parsing in git-cat-file slightly.
[jc: HPA version had -n option which did rev-parse --verify; the
real value of this patch is the option parsing cleanup.]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now that we have something called tag object, and a notion of
"tags" stored in .git/refs/tags/ directory, the word "tagname"
has become misleading in the usage string. The documentation
already calls that <type>.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This teaches packed_delta_info() that it only needs to look at
the type of the base object to figure out both type and size of
a deltified object. This saves quite a many calls to inflate()
when dealing with a deep delta chain.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We use sha1_object_info() now, and getting size is also trivial.
I admit that this is more of "because we can" not "because I see
immediate need for it", though.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When trying to find out the type of the object, there is no need
to uncompress the whole object. Just use sha1_object_info().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This means that you can take a tag object, and do
git-cat-file commit tagname
and it will cat the commit that the tag points to. Or you can
cat the tree that a commit (or tag) points to.
It still gives the old behaviour if you just give it the
original type, ie if you want to see the tag object itself,
you'd do
git-cat-file -t tagname
and you'd get the expected tag output.
This allows the programs to use various simplified versions of
the SHA1 names, eg just say "HEAD" for the SHA1 pointed to by
the .git/HEAD file etc.
For example, this commit has been done with
git-commit-tree $(git-write-tree) -p HEAD
instead of the traditional "$(cat .git/HEAD)" syntax.
Now there is error() for "library" errors and die() for fatal "application"
errors. usage() is now used strictly only for usage errors.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
The tool interface sucks (especially "committing" information, which is just
me doing everything by hand from the command line), but I think this is in
theory actually a viable way of describing the world. So copyright it.
H. Peter Anvin
Junio C Hamano
Alexey Nezhdanov
Linus Torvalds
Petr Baudis