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Diffstat (limited to 'builtin-describe.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin-describe.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-describe.c b/builtin-describe.c index 7a5ab012b..df554b30a 100644 --- a/builtin-describe.c +++ b/builtin-describe.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ static int longformat; static int abbrev = DEFAULT_ABBREV; static int max_candidates = 10; const char *pattern = NULL; +static int always; struct commit_name { struct tag *tag; @@ -257,8 +258,14 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one) } } - if (!match_cnt) - die("cannot describe '%s'", sha1_to_hex(cmit->object.sha1)); + if (!match_cnt) { + const unsigned char *sha1 = cmit->object.sha1; + if (always) { + printf("%s\n", find_unique_abbrev(sha1, abbrev)); + return; + } + die("cannot describe '%s'", sha1_to_hex(sha1)); + } qsort(all_matches, match_cnt, sizeof(all_matches[0]), compare_pt); @@ -311,6 +318,8 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) "consider <n> most recent tags (default: 10)"), OPT_STRING(0, "match", &pattern, "pattern", "only consider tags matching <pattern>"), + OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "always", &always, + "show abbreviated commit object as fallback"), OPT_END(), }; @@ -326,11 +335,13 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) die("--long is incompatible with --abbrev=0"); if (contains) { - const char **args = xmalloc((6 + argc) * sizeof(char*)); + const char **args = xmalloc((7 + argc) * sizeof(char*)); int i = 0; args[i++] = "name-rev"; args[i++] = "--name-only"; args[i++] = "--no-undefined"; + if (always) + args[i++] = "--always"; if (!all) { args[i++] = "--tags"; if (pattern) { |