Merge branch 'js/mingw-o-append' into maint
[gitweb.git] / refs.c
diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 5b412c61efb94cfd4549c68ac561b596dbf0463e..de81c7be7ca8d3ca033b34a61f33b0bff069932f 100644 (file)
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -490,16 +490,24 @@ static const char *ref_rev_parse_rules[] = {
        NULL
 };
 
+#define NUM_REV_PARSE_RULES (ARRAY_SIZE(ref_rev_parse_rules) - 1)
+
+/*
+ * Is it possible that the caller meant full_name with abbrev_name?
+ * If so return a non-zero value to signal "yes"; the magnitude of
+ * the returned value gives the precedence used for disambiguation.
+ *
+ * If abbrev_name cannot mean full_name, return 0.
+ */
 int refname_match(const char *abbrev_name, const char *full_name)
 {
        const char **p;
        const int abbrev_name_len = strlen(abbrev_name);
+       const int num_rules = NUM_REV_PARSE_RULES;
 
-       for (p = ref_rev_parse_rules; *p; p++) {
-               if (!strcmp(full_name, mkpath(*p, abbrev_name_len, abbrev_name))) {
-                       return 1;
-               }
-       }
+       for (p = ref_rev_parse_rules; *p; p++)
+               if (!strcmp(full_name, mkpath(*p, abbrev_name_len, abbrev_name)))
+                       return &ref_rev_parse_rules[num_rules] - p;
 
        return 0;
 }