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-rw-r--r--Documentation/revisions.txt3
-rw-r--r--sha1_name.c2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t1511-rev-parse-caret.sh7
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index d477b3f6b..b3322adf2 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
object that exists, without requiring 'rev' to be a tag, and
without dereferencing 'rev'; because a tag is already an object,
it does not have to be dereferenced even once to get to an object.
++
+'rev{caret}\{tag\}' can be used to ensure that 'rev' identifies an
+existing tag object.
'<rev>{caret}\{\}', e.g. 'v0.99.8{caret}\{\}'::
A suffix '{caret}' followed by an empty brace pair
diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 65ad066d9..6dc496deb 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -679,6 +679,8 @@ static int peel_onion(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
sp++; /* beginning of type name, or closing brace for empty */
if (!strncmp(commit_type, sp, 6) && sp[6] == '}')
expected_type = OBJ_COMMIT;
+ else if (!strncmp(tag_type, sp, 3) && sp[3] == '}')
+ expected_type = OBJ_TAG;
else if (!strncmp(tree_type, sp, 4) && sp[4] == '}')
expected_type = OBJ_TREE;
else if (!strncmp(blob_type, sp, 4) && sp[4] == '}')
diff --git a/t/t1511-rev-parse-caret.sh b/t/t1511-rev-parse-caret.sh
index eaefc777b..15973f209 100755
--- a/t/t1511-rev-parse-caret.sh
+++ b/t/t1511-rev-parse-caret.sh
@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ test_expect_success 'ref^{tree}' '
test_must_fail git rev-parse blob-tag^{tree}
'
+test_expect_success 'ref^{tag}' '
+ test_must_fail git rev-parse HEAD^{tag} &&
+ git rev-parse commit-tag >expected &&
+ git rev-parse commit-tag^{tag} >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
test_expect_success 'ref^{/.}' '
git rev-parse master >expected &&
git rev-parse master^{/.} >actual &&