sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish()

Many callers know that the user meant to name a committish by
syntactical positions where the object name appears.  Calling this
function allows the machinery to disambiguate shorter-than-unique
abbreviated object names between committish and others.

Note that this does NOT error out when the named object is not a
committish. It is merely to give a hint to the disambiguation
machinery.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index e1fa63b..e947b48 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -817,6 +817,7 @@ struct object_context {
 #define GET_SHA1_ONLY_TO_DIE 04000
 
 extern int get_sha1(const char *str, unsigned char *sha1);
+extern int get_sha1_committish(const char *str, unsigned char *sha1);
 extern void maybe_die_on_misspelt_object_name(const char *name, const char *prefix);
 extern int get_sha1_with_context(const char *str, unsigned flags, unsigned char *sha1, struct object_context *orc);