refs: add expand_ref()

This is basically dwim_ref() without @{} support. To be used on the
server side where we want to expand abbreviated to full ref names and
nothing else. The first user is "git clone/fetch --shallow-exclude".

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/refs.h b/refs.h
index 3c3da29bf..31a2fa68a 100644
--- a/refs.h
+++ b/refs.h
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ extern int resolve_gitlink_ref(const char *path, const char *refname, unsigned c
  */
 extern int refname_match(const char *abbrev_name, const char *full_name);
 
+extern int expand_ref(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1, char **ref);
 extern int dwim_ref(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1, char **ref);
 extern int dwim_log(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1, char **ref);