gitignore: report access errors of exclude files

diff --git a/tag.c b/tag.c
index 3aa186df628331e74e8a84d3cc2d313f4518a626..78d272b863f22285048cf54b9dcb03f80cb36f00 100644 (file)
--- a/tag.c
+++ b/tag.c
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@ struct object *deref_tag(struct object *o, const char *warn, int warnlen)
        return o;
 }
 
+struct object *deref_tag_noverify(struct object *o)
+{
+       while (o && o->type == OBJ_TAG) {
+               o = parse_object(o->sha1);
+               if (o && o->type == OBJ_TAG && ((struct tag *)o)->tagged)
+                       o = ((struct tag *)o)->tagged;
+               else
+                       o = NULL;
+       }
+       return o;
+}
+
 struct tag *lookup_tag(const unsigned char *sha1)
 {
        struct object *obj = lookup_object(sha1);