When "cat-file -p" prints commits, it shows them in their
raw format, since git's format is already human-readable.
For tags, however, we print the whole thing raw except for
one thing: we convert the timestamp on the tagger line into a
human-readable date.
This dates all the way back to a0f15fa (Pretty-print tagger
dates, 2006-03-01). At that time there was no other way to
pretty-print a tag. These days, however, neither of those
matters much. The normal way to pretty-print a tag is with
"git show", which is much more flexible than "cat-file -p".
Commit a0f15fa also built "verify-tag --verbose" (and
subsequently "tag -v") around the "cat-file -p" output.
However, that behavior was lost in commit 62e09ce (Make git
tag a builtin, 2007-07-20), and we went back to printing
the raw tag contents. Nobody seems to have noticed the bug
since then (and it is arguably a saner behavior anyway, as
it shows the actual bytes for which we verified the
signature).
Let's drop the tagger-date formatting for "cat-file -p". It
makes us more consistent with cat-file's commit
pretty-printer, and as a bonus, we can drop the hand-rolled
tag parsing code in cat-file (which happened to behave
inconsistently with the tag pretty-printing code elsewhere).
This is a change of output format, so it's possible that
some callers could considered this a regression. However,
the original behavior was arguably a bug (due to the
inconsistency with commits), likely nobody was relying on it
(even we do not use it ourselves these days), and anyone
relying on the "-p" pretty-printer should be able to expect
a change in the output format (i.e., while "cat-file" is
plumbing, the output format of "-p" was never guaranteed to
be stable).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, cat-file --batch / --batch-check would silently exit if it
was passed a non-existent SHA1 on stdin. Now it prints "<SHA1>
missing" as in all other cases (and as advertised in the
documentation).
Note that cat-file --batch-check (but not --batch) will still output
"error: unable to find <SHA1>" on stderr if a non-existent SHA1 is
passed, but this does not affect parsing its stdout.
Also, type <= 0 was previously using the potentially uninitialized
type variable (relying on it being 0); it is now being initialized.
Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously timestamps were removed unconditionally (though this didn't
seem to break this test). Now they are only removed if $no_ts is
non-empty.
Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--batch is similar to --batch-check, except that the contents of each object is
also printed. The output's form is:
<sha1> SP <type> SP <size> LF
<contents> LF
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new option allows multiple objects to be specified on stdin. For each
object specified, a line of the following form is printed:
<sha1> SP <type> SP <size> LF
If the object does not exist in the repository, a line of the following form is
printed:
<object> SP missing LF
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
