revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index c045be8e13e16d09487023eecad31e570397cf98..9e13d60bfa1bbc26b6f68c50cf67253bbd1dd776 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ int get_sha1_mb(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1)
                struct strbuf sb;
                strbuf_init(&sb, dots - name);
                strbuf_add(&sb, name, dots - name);
-               st = get_sha1(sb.buf, sha1_tmp);
+               st = get_sha1_committish(sb.buf, sha1_tmp);
                strbuf_release(&sb);
        }
        if (st)
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ int get_sha1_mb(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1)
        if (!one)
                return -1;
 
-       if (get_sha1(dots[3] ? (dots + 3) : "HEAD", sha1_tmp))
+       if (get_sha1_committish(dots[3] ? (dots + 3) : "HEAD", sha1_tmp))
                return -1;
        two = lookup_commit_reference_gently(sha1_tmp, 0);
        if (!two)
@@ -999,6 +999,23 @@ int get_sha1(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1)
        return get_sha1_with_context(name, 0, sha1, &unused);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Many callers know that the user meant to name a committish by
+ * syntactical positions where the object name appears.  Calling this
+ * function allows the machinery to disambiguate shorter-than-unique
+ * abbreviated object names between committish and others.
+ *
+ * Note that this does NOT error out when the named object is not a
+ * committish. It is merely to give a hint to the disambiguation
+ * machinery.
+ */
+int get_sha1_committish(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1)
+{
+       struct object_context unused;
+       return get_sha1_with_context(name, GET_SHA1_COMMITTISH,
+                                    sha1, &unused);
+}
+
 /* Must be called only when object_name:filename doesn't exist. */
 static void diagnose_invalid_sha1_path(const char *prefix,
                                       const char *filename,