From f2a06330f0bc259b9c7faa029d2d4dace8f4956b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:58:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] git-cat-file: use sha1_object_info() on '-t'.

When trying to find out the type of the object, there is no need
to uncompress the whole object.  Just use sha1_object_info().

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/cat-file.c b/cat-file.c
index be41f51..0076fc5 100644
--- a/cat-file.c
+++ b/cat-file.c
@@ -16,13 +16,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		usage("git-cat-file [-t | tagname] <sha1>");
 
 	if (!strcmp("-t", argv[1])) {
-		buf = read_sha1_file(sha1, type, &size);
-		if (buf) {
-			buf = type;
-			size = strlen(type);
-			type[size] = '\n';
-			size++;
+		if (!sha1_object_info(sha1, type, &size)) {
+			printf("%s\n", type);
+			return 0;
 		}
+		buf = NULL;
 	} else {
 		buf = read_object_with_reference(sha1, argv[1], &size, NULL);
 	}
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