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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2013-04-17 17:00:48 -0400
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-04-17 14:48:45 -0700
commit9cfa5126a0bdb47bc9c6d5feb76bb0fbfd40785b (patch)
tree482001f02bd6fdff2b4df9eb73fd57f42c7afcbb /builtin
parenthelp.c: add a compatibility comment to cmd_version() (diff)
downloadtgif-9cfa5126a0bdb47bc9c6d5feb76bb0fbfd40785b.tar.xz
cat-file: print tags raw for "cat-file -p"
When "cat-file -p" prints commits, it shows them in their raw format, since git's format is already human-readable. For tags, however, we print the whole thing raw except for one thing: we convert the timestamp on the tagger line into a human-readable date. This dates all the way back to a0f15fa (Pretty-print tagger dates, 2006-03-01). At that time there was no other way to pretty-print a tag. These days, however, neither of those matters much. The normal way to pretty-print a tag is with "git show", which is much more flexible than "cat-file -p". Commit a0f15fa also built "verify-tag --verbose" (and subsequently "tag -v") around the "cat-file -p" output. However, that behavior was lost in commit 62e09ce (Make git tag a builtin, 2007-07-20), and we went back to printing the raw tag contents. Nobody seems to have noticed the bug since then (and it is arguably a saner behavior anyway, as it shows the actual bytes for which we verified the signature). Let's drop the tagger-date formatting for "cat-file -p". It makes us more consistent with cat-file's commit pretty-printer, and as a bonus, we can drop the hand-rolled tag parsing code in cat-file (which happened to behave inconsistently with the tag pretty-printing code elsewhere). This is a change of output format, so it's possible that some callers could considered this a regression. However, the original behavior was arguably a bug (due to the inconsistency with commits), likely nobody was relying on it (even we do not use it ourselves these days), and anyone relying on the "-p" pretty-printer should be able to expect a change in the output format (i.e., while "cat-file" is plumbing, the output format of "-p" was never guaranteed to be stable). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin')
-rw-r--r--builtin/cat-file.c71
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 71 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
index 40f87b4649..045cee7bce 100644
--- a/builtin/cat-file.c
+++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
@@ -16,73 +16,6 @@
#define BATCH 1
#define BATCH_CHECK 2
-static void pprint_tag(const unsigned char *sha1, const char *buf, unsigned long size)
-{
- /* the parser in tag.c is useless here. */
- const char *endp = buf + size;
- const char *cp = buf;
-
- while (cp < endp) {
- char c = *cp++;
- if (c != '\n')
- continue;
- if (7 <= endp - cp && !memcmp("tagger ", cp, 7)) {
- const char *tagger = cp;
-
- /* Found the tagger line. Copy out the contents
- * of the buffer so far.
- */
- write_or_die(1, buf, cp - buf);
-
- /*
- * Do something intelligent, like pretty-printing
- * the date.
- */
- while (cp < endp) {
- if (*cp++ == '\n') {
- /* tagger to cp is a line
- * that has ident and time.
- */
- const char *sp = tagger;
- char *ep;
- unsigned long date;
- long tz;
- while (sp < cp && *sp != '>')
- sp++;
- if (sp == cp) {
- /* give up */
- write_or_die(1, tagger,
- cp - tagger);
- break;
- }
- while (sp < cp &&
- !('0' <= *sp && *sp <= '9'))
- sp++;
- write_or_die(1, tagger, sp - tagger);
- date = strtoul(sp, &ep, 10);
- tz = strtol(ep, NULL, 10);
- sp = show_date(date, tz, 0);
- write_or_die(1, sp, strlen(sp));
- xwrite(1, "\n", 1);
- break;
- }
- }
- break;
- }
- if (cp < endp && *cp == '\n')
- /* end of header */
- break;
- }
- /* At this point, we have copied out the header up to the end of
- * the tagger line and cp points at one past \n. It could be the
- * next header line after the tagger line, or it could be another
- * \n that marks the end of the headers. We need to copy out the
- * remainder as is.
- */
- if (cp < endp)
- write_or_die(1, cp, endp - cp);
-}
-
static int cat_one_file(int opt, const char *exp_type, const char *obj_name)
{
unsigned char sha1[20];
@@ -133,10 +66,6 @@ static int cat_one_file(int opt, const char *exp_type, const char *obj_name)
buf = read_sha1_file(sha1, &type, &size);
if (!buf)
die("Cannot read object %s", obj_name);
- if (type == OBJ_TAG) {
- pprint_tag(sha1, buf, size);
- return 0;
- }
/* otherwise just spit out the data */
break;