[PATCH] Accept commit in some places when tree is needed.

This patch implements read_tree_with_tree_or_commit_sha1(),
which can be used when you are interested in reading an unpacked
raw tree data but you do not know nor care if the SHA1 you
obtained your user is a tree ID or a commit ID.  Before this
function's introduction, you would have called read_sha1_file(),
examined its type, parsed it to call read_sha1_file() again if
it is a commit, and verified that the resulting object is a
tree.  Instead, this function does that for you.  It returns
NULL if the given SHA1 is not either a tree or a commit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index a67b79e97..378299a03 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -125,4 +125,8 @@ extern int error(const char *err, ...);
 
 extern int cache_name_compare(const char *name1, int len1, const char *name2, int len2);
 
+extern void *read_tree_with_tree_or_commit_sha1(const unsigned char *sha1,
+						unsigned long *size,
+						unsigned char *tree_sha1_ret);
+
 #endif /* CACHE_H */