git-fetch: Always fetch tags if the object they reference exists

Previously git-fetch.sh used `git cat-file -t` to determine if an
object referenced by a tag exists, and if so fetch that tag locally.
This was subtly broken during the port to C based builtin-fetch as
lookup_object() only works to locate an object if it was previously
accessed by the transport.  Not all transports will access all
objects in this way, so tags were not always being fetched.

The rsync transport never loads objects into the internal object
table so automated tag following didn't work if rsync was used.
Automated tag following also didn't work on the native transport
if the new tag was behind the common point(s) negotiated between
the two ends of the connection as the tag's referrant would not
be loaded into the internal object table.  Further the automated
tag following was broken with the HTTP commit walker if the new
tag's referrant was behind an existing ref, as the walker would
stop before loading the tag's referrant into the object table.

Switching to has_sha1_file() restores the original behavior from
the shell script by checking if the object exists in the ODB,
without relying on the state left behind by a transport.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

diff --git a/builtin-fetch.c b/builtin-fetch.c
index 5f5b59bfdb5056dfedf692215db2f9e4207f8580..1cb30c52c1f33ae3dc4b05a86ad7f43a6f92d5f1 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-fetch.c
+++ b/builtin-fetch.c
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static struct ref *find_non_local_tags(struct transport *transport,
 
                if (!path_list_has_path(&existing_refs, ref_name) &&
                    !path_list_has_path(&new_refs, ref_name) &&
-                   lookup_object(ref->old_sha1)) {
+                   has_sha1_file(ref->old_sha1)) {
                        path_list_insert(ref_name, &new_refs);
 
                        rm = alloc_ref(strlen(ref_name) + 1);