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jgit Ref for a relative references [message #1318355]

Sun, 27 April 2014 16:17

R Shapiro

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Registered: June 2011

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I recently noticed that the method getRef(String name) in the class org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Repository does not handle names like "HEAD^" or "master~2".

I know JGit can handle these in general, since I use references like this in EGit, for example in the Reset dialog.

Should I be using some JGIt call other than Repository#getRef() ?

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Re: jgit Ref for a relative references [message #1318673 is a reply to message #1318355]

Sun, 27 April 2014 20:30

Robin Rosenberg

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Registered: July 2009

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R Shapiro skrev 2014-04-27 18.17:
> I recently noticed that the method getRef(String name) in the class org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Repository does not handle names like "HEAD^" or "master~2".
> I know JGit can handle these in general, since I use references like this in EGit, for example in the Reset dialog.
>
> Should I be using some JGIt call other than Repository#getRef() ?

HEAD^ is not a ref. Use Repository.resolve(String) to evaluate such expressions.

-- robin

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