diff-lib: allow ita entries treated as "not yet exist in index"

diff --git a/hex.c b/hex.c
index 9619b67af0b79c4ebae4c5e6a5f5748405bd4dea..ab2610e498615b197787a8c22cd00f979e488fc8 100644 (file)
--- a/hex.c
+++ b/hex.c
@@ -39,16 +39,8 @@ int get_sha1_hex(const char *hex, unsigned char *sha1)
 {
        int i;
        for (i = 0; i < GIT_SHA1_RAWSZ; i++) {
-               unsigned int val;
-               /*
-                * hex[1]=='\0' is caught when val is checked below,
-                * but if hex[0] is NUL we have to avoid reading
-                * past the end of the string:
-                */
-               if (!hex[0])
-                       return -1;
-               val = (hexval(hex[0]) << 4) | hexval(hex[1]);
-               if (val & ~0xff)
+               int val = hex2chr(hex);
+               if (val < 0)
                        return -1;
                *sha1++ = val;
                hex += 2;