add refname_match()

We use at least two rulesets for matching abbreviated refnames with
full refnames (starting with 'refs/').  git-rev-parse and git-fetch
use slightly different rules.

This commit introduces a new function refname_match
(const char *abbrev_name, const char *full_name, const char **rules).

abbrev_name is expanded using the rules and matched against full_name.
If a match is found the function returns true.  rules is a NULL-terminate
list of format patterns with "%.*s", for example:

    const char *ref_rev_parse_rules[] = {
               "%.*s",
               "refs/%.*s",
               "refs/tags/%.*s",
               "refs/heads/%.*s",
               "refs/remotes/%.*s",
               "refs/remotes/%.*s/HEAD",
               NULL
    };

Asterisks are included in the format strings because this is the form
required in sha1_name.c.  Sharing the list with the functions there is
a good idea to avoid duplicating the rules.  Hopefully this
facilitates unified matching rules in the future.

This commit makes the rules used by rev-parse for resolving refs to
sha1s available for string comparison.  Before this change, the rules
were buried in get_sha1*() and dwim_ref().

A follow-up commit will refactor the rules used by fetch.

refname_match() will be used for matching refspecs in git-send-pack.

Thanks to Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> for pointing
out that ref_matches_abbrev in remote.c solves a similar problem
and care should be taken to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 2d727d54d..d364244dc 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -239,23 +239,13 @@ static int ambiguous_path(const char *path, int len)
 	return slash;
 }
 
-static const char *ref_fmt[] = {
-	"%.*s",
-	"refs/%.*s",
-	"refs/tags/%.*s",
-	"refs/heads/%.*s",
-	"refs/remotes/%.*s",
-	"refs/remotes/%.*s/HEAD",
-	NULL
-};
-
 int dwim_ref(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1, char **ref)
 {
 	const char **p, *r;
 	int refs_found = 0;
 
 	*ref = NULL;
-	for (p = ref_fmt; *p; p++) {
+	for (p = ref_rev_parse_rules; *p; p++) {
 		unsigned char sha1_from_ref[20];
 		unsigned char *this_result;
 
@@ -277,7 +267,7 @@ int dwim_log(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1, char **log)
 	int logs_found = 0;
 
 	*log = NULL;
-	for (p = ref_fmt; *p; p++) {
+	for (p = ref_rev_parse_rules; *p; p++) {
 		struct stat st;
 		unsigned char hash[20];
 		char path[PATH_MAX];