refs: make explicit that ref_iterator_peel returns boolean

Use -1 as error return value throughout.

This removes spurious differences in the GIT_TRACE_REFS output, depending on the
ref storage backend active.

Before, the cached ref_iterator (but only that iterator!) would return
peel_object() output directly. No callers relied on the peel_status values
beyond success/failure. All calls to these functions go through
peel_iterated_oid(), which returns peel_object() as a fallback, but also
squashing the error values.

The iteration interface already passes REF_ISSYMREF and REF_ISBROKEN through the
flags argument, so the additional error values in enum peel_status provide no
value.

The ref iteration interface provides a separate peel() function because certain
formats (eg. packed-refs and reftable) can store the peeled object next to the
tag SHA1. Passing the peeled SHA1 as an optional argument to each_ref_fn maps
more naturally to the implementation of ref databases. Changing the code in this
way is left for a future refactoring.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 261fd82beb..87cc64d562 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -2010,7 +2010,7 @@ int peel_iterated_oid(const struct object_id *base, struct object_id *peeled)
 	     oideq(current_ref_iter->oid, base)))
 		return ref_iterator_peel(current_ref_iter, peeled);
 
-	return peel_object(base, peeled);
+	return peel_object(base, peeled) ? -1 : 0;
 }
 
 int refs_create_symref(struct ref_store *refs,