sha1_name.c: understand "describe" output as a valid object name

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 1fbc4438059b68f31aa25fb8e3b82b37a4d02819..9b226e3579b68fe8b59c7105bd926e3a0a70b0ad 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -431,6 +431,26 @@ static int peel_onion(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static int get_describe_name(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
+{
+       const char *cp;
+
+       for (cp = name + len - 1; name + 2 <= cp; cp--) {
+               char ch = *cp;
+               if (hexval(ch) & ~0377) {
+                       /* We must be looking at g in "SOMETHING-g"
+                        * for it to be describe output.
+                        */
+                       if (ch == 'g' && cp[-1] == '-') {
+                               cp++;
+                               len -= cp - name;
+                               return get_short_sha1(cp, len, sha1, 1);
+                       }
+               }
+       }
+       return -1;
+}
+
 static int get_sha1_1(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
 {
        int ret, has_suffix;
@@ -472,6 +492,12 @@ static int get_sha1_1(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
        ret = get_sha1_basic(name, len, sha1);
        if (!ret)
                return 0;
+
+       /* It could be describe output that is "SOMETHING-gXXXX" */
+       ret = get_describe_name(name, len, sha1);
+       if (!ret)
+               return 0;
+
        return get_short_sha1(name, len, sha1, 0);
 }