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author | Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2008-02-24 03:07:31 -0500 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-02-24 10:01:24 -0800 |
commit | 2c33f7575452f53382dcf77fdc88a2ea5d46f09d (patch) | |
tree | e6a91b0bfe39674c794641f07ca2dd1b6c4c8b4e /pager.c | |
parent | Avoid accessing non-tag refs in git-describe unless --all is requested (diff) | |
download | tgif-2c33f7575452f53382dcf77fdc88a2ea5d46f09d.tar.xz |
Teach git-describe --exact-match to avoid expensive tag searches
Sometimes scripts want (or need) the annotated tag name that exactly
matches a specific commit, or no tag at all. In such cases it can be
difficult to determine if the output of `git describe $commit` is a
real tag name or a tag+abbreviated commit. A common idiom is to run
git-describe twice:
if test $(git describe $commit) = $(git describe --abbrev=0 $commit)
...
but this is a huge waste of time if the caller is just going to pick a
different method to describe $commit or abort because it is not exactly
an annotated tag.
Setting the maximum number of candidates to 0 allows the caller to ask
for only a tag that directly points at the supplied commit, or to have
git-describe abort if no such item exists.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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