Junio C Hamano [Fri, 5 Apr 2013 21:15:16 +0000 (14:15 -0700)]
Merge branch 'sg/gpg-sig'
Teach "merge/pull" to optionally verify and reject commits that are
not signed properly.
* sg/gpg-sig:
pretty printing: extend %G? to include 'N' and 'U'
merge/pull Check for untrusted good GPG signatures
merge/pull: verify GPG signatures of commits being merged
commit.c/GPG signature verification: Also look at the first GPG status line
Move commit GPG signature verification to commit.c
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 5 Apr 2013 21:14:48 +0000 (14:14 -0700)]
Merge branch 'rr/send-email-perl-critique'
Update "git send-email" for issues noticed by PerlCritic.
* rr/send-email-perl-critique:
send-email: use the three-arg form of open in recipients_cmd
send-email: drop misleading function prototype
send-email: use "return;" not "return undef;" on error codepaths
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 5 Apr 2013 21:14:41 +0000 (14:14 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jc/merge-tag-object'
"git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from
"git merge v1.8.2" as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did
not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload.
This makes the code notice the type of the tag object, in addition
to the dwim_ref() based classification the current code uses
(i.e. the name appears in refs/tags/) to decide when to special
case merging of tags.
* jc/merge-tag-object:
t6200: test message for merging of an annotated tag
t6200: use test_config/test_unconfig
merge: a random object may not necssarily be a commit
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:59:55 +0000 (12:59 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/peel-ref' into maint
* jk/peel-ref:
upload-pack: load non-tip "want" objects from disk
upload-pack: make sure "want" objects are parsed
upload-pack: drop lookup-before-parse optimization
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:34:53 +0000 (09:34 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jc/sha1-name-object-peeler'
There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object}
can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify".
* jc/sha1-name-object-peeler:
peel_onion(): teach $foo^{object} peeler
peel_onion: disambiguate to favor tree-ish when we know we want a tree-ish
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:34:37 +0000 (09:34 -0700)]
Merge branch 'js/iterm-is-on-osx'
Add more logic to detect graphic environment of OS X by simply
checking TERM_PROGRAM has some value, not Apple_Terminal, to detect
iTerm.app and any other.
* js/iterm-is-on-osx:
git-web--browse: recognize any TERM_PROGRAM as a GUI terminal on OS X
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:34:28 +0000 (09:34 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/check-corrupt-objects-carefully'
Have the streaming interface and other codepaths more carefully
examine for corrupt objects.
* jk/check-corrupt-objects-carefully:
clone: leave repo in place after checkout errors
clone: run check_everything_connected
clone: die on errors from unpack_trees
add tests for cloning corrupted repositories
streaming_write_entry: propagate streaming errors
add test for streaming corrupt blobs
avoid infinite loop in read_istream_loose
read_istream_filtered: propagate read error from upstream
check_sha1_signature: check return value from read_istream
stream_blob_to_fd: detect errors reading from stream
Try to be careful when difftool backend allows the user to write
into the temporary files being shown *and* the user makes changes
to the working tree at the same time. One of the changes has to be
lost in such a case, but at least tell the user what he did.
* jk/difftool-no-overwrite-on-copyback:
t7800: run --dir-diff tests with and without symlinks
t7800: fix tests when difftool uses --no-symlinks
t7800: don't hide grep output
difftool: don't overwrite modified files
t7800: move '--symlinks' specific test to the end
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:34:04 +0000 (09:34 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix'
Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without
trailing slash) to a directory "dir".
* jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix:
t: check that a pattern without trailing slash matches a directory
dir.c::match_pathname(): pay attention to the length of string parameters
dir.c::match_pathname(): adjust patternlen when shifting pattern
dir.c::match_basename(): pay attention to the length of string parameters
attr.c::path_matches(): special case paths that end with a slash
attr.c::path_matches(): the basename is part of the pathname
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:26:27 +0000 (09:26 -0700)]
Merge branch 'mg/gpg-interface-using-status' into maint
Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
or en/US locale.
* mg/gpg-interface-using-status:
pretty: make %GK output the signing key for signed commits
pretty: parse the gpg status lines rather than the output
gpg_interface: allow to request status return
log-tree: rely upon the check in the gpg_interface
gpg-interface: check good signature in a reliable way
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:26:07 +0000 (09:26 -0700)]
Merge branch 'bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option' into maint
'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
$msg already ended with one.
* bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option:
Documentation/git-commit.txt: rework the --cleanup section
git-commit: only append a newline to -m mesg if necessary
t7502: demonstrate breakage with a commit message with trailing newlines
t/t7502: compare entire commit message with what was expected
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:25:52 +0000 (09:25 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jc/describe' into maint
The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with
"--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
base of description, did not restrict the output from the command to
those that match the given pattern.
* jc/describe:
describe: --match=<pattern> must limit the refs even when used with --all
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:25:41 +0000 (09:25 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/alias-in-bare' into maint
An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say
it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.
* jk/alias-in-bare:
setup: suppress implicit "." work-tree for bare repos
environment: add GIT_PREFIX to local_repo_env
cache.h: drop LOCAL_REPO_ENV_SIZE
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:25:15 +0000 (09:25 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/empty-archive' into maint
"git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out
of an empty tree. It would be more intuitive to give an empty
archive back in such a case.
* jk/empty-archive:
archive: handle commits with an empty tree
test-lib: factor out $GIT_UNZIP setup
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:18:01 +0000 (09:18 -0700)]
Sync with 1.8.1 maintenance track
* maint-1.8.1:
Start preparing for 1.8.1.6
git-tag(1): we tag HEAD by default
Fix revision walk for commits with the same dates
t2003: work around path mangling issue on Windows
pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait
pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags
use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object")
avoid segfaults on parse_object failure
entry: fix filter lookup
t2003: modernize style
name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:37:39 +0000 (08:37 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap' into maint-1.8.1
* ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap:
tests: make sure rename pretty print works
diff: prevent pprint_rename from underrunning input
diff: Fix rename pretty-print when suffix and prefix overlap
Thomas Rast [Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:27:14 +0000 (16:27 +0200)]
git-tag(1): we tag HEAD by default
The <commit>|<object> argument is actually not explained anywhere
(except implicitly in the description of an unannotated tag). Write a
little explanation, in particular to cover the default.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 2 Apr 2013 22:10:53 +0000 (15:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/config-with-empty-section'
Document that "git config --unset" does not remove an empty section
head after removing the last variable in a section, and adding a
new variable does not try to reuse a leftover empty section head.
* jk/config-with-empty-section:
t1300: document some aesthetic failures of the config editor
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 2 Apr 2013 22:09:54 +0000 (15:09 -0700)]
Merge branch 'tb/cygwin-shared-repository'
Cygwin port has a faster-but-lying lstat(2) emulation whose
incorrectness does not matter in practice except for a few
codepaths, and setting permission bits to directories is a codepath
that needs to use a more correct one.
* tb/cygwin-shared-repository:
Make core.sharedRepository work under cygwin 1.7
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 2 Apr 2013 22:09:35 +0000 (15:09 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/no-more-self-assignment'
This started as a topic to reduce "type var = var" self assignment
tricks that were used to squelch "variable used uninitialized perhaps?"
warning from some compilers, but resulted in rewriting logic with
a version that is simpler and easier to understand for humans.
* jk/no-more-self-assignment:
match-trees: simplify score_trees() using tree_entry()
submodule: clarify logic in show_submodule_summary
Michael Haggerty [Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:44:25 +0000 (07:44 +0100)]
rev-parse: clarify documentation for the --verify option
The old version could be read to mean that the argument has to refer
to a valid object, but that is incorrect:
* the object is not necessarily read (e.g., to check for corruption)
* if the argument is a 40-digit string of hex digits, then it is
accepted whether or not is is the name of an existing object.
So reword the explanation to be less ambiguous.
Also fix the examples involving --verify: to be sure that the argument
refers to a commit (rather than some other kind of object), the
argument has to be suffixed with "^{commit}". This trick is not
possible in the example involving --default, so don't imply that it is
exactly the same as the previous example.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
submodule deinit: clarify work tree removal message
The output of "git submodule deinit sub" of a populated submodule prints
rm 'sub'
as the first line unless used with the -f option.
The "rm 'sub'" line is exactly the same output the user gets when using
"git rm sub" (because that command is used with the --dry-run option under
the hood to determine if the submodule is clean), which can easily lead to
the false impression that the submodule would be permanently removed. Also
users might be confused that the "rm 'submodule'" line won't show up when
the -f option is used, as the test is skipped in this case.
Silence the "rm 'submodule'" output by using the --quiet option for "git
rm" and always print
Cleared directory 'submodule'
instead as the first output line. This line is printed as long as the
directory exists, no matter if empty or not.
Also extend the tests in t7400 to make sure the "Cleared directory" line
is printed correctly.
Reported-by: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Apr 2013 19:33:52 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
t6200: use test_config/test_unconfig
The tests were already well protected from previous ones by running
"git config --unset" on variables early they do not want to see, but
it is easier to make sure they start from a clean state by using
more modern test_config/test_unconfig helper functions.
It turns out that the last test depended on the merge.summary
configuration previous one leaves behind. Set it explicitly in it.
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:19:46 +0000 (09:19 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap' into maint
* ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap:
tests: make sure rename pretty print works
diff: prevent pprint_rename from underrunning input
diff: Fix rename pretty-print when suffix and prefix overlap
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:19:30 +0000 (09:19 -0700)]
Merge branch 'tb/document-status-u-tradeoff' into maint
* tb/document-status-u-tradeoff:
status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long
git status: document trade-offs in choosing parameters to the -u option
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:19:04 +0000 (09:19 -0700)]
Merge branch 'da/downcase-u-in-usage' into maint
* da/downcase-u-in-usage:
contrib/mw-to-git/t/install-wiki.sh: use a lowercase "usage:" string
contrib/examples/git-remote.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string
tests: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-svn: use a lowercase "usage:" string
Documentation/user-manual.txt: use a lowercase "usage:" string
templates/hooks--update.sample: use a lowercase "usage:" string
contrib/hooks/setgitperms.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string
contrib/examples: use a lowercase "usage:" string
contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: use spaces instead of tabs
contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: fix broken error message
contrib/fast-import: use a lowercase "usage:" string
contrib/credential: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-cvsimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-cvsimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-cvsexportcommit: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-archimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-merge-one-file: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-relink: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-svn: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-sh-setup: use a lowercase "usage:" string
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:06:15 +0000 (09:06 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jn/push-tests'
Update t5516 with style fixes.
* jn/push-tests:
push test: rely on &&-chaining instead of 'if bad; then echo Oops; fi'
push test: simplify check of push result
push test: use test_config when appropriate
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:05:45 +0000 (09:05 -0700)]
Merge branch 'nd/branch-show-rebase-bisect-state'
Add a bit more information to "git status" during a rebase/bisect
session.
* nd/branch-show-rebase-bisect-state:
status, branch: fix the misleading "bisecting" message
branch: show more information when HEAD is detached
status: show more info than "currently not on any branch"
wt-status: move wt_status_get_state() out to wt_status_print()
wt-status: split wt_status_state parsing function out
wt-status: move strbuf into read_and_strip_branch()
Stop exporting mandir that used to be exported only when
config.mak.autogen was used. It would have broken installation of
manpages (but not other documentation formats).
* jc/remove-export-from-config-mak-in:
Fix `make install` when configured with autoconf
Makefile: do not export mandir/htmldir/infodir
config.mak.in: remove unused definitions
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:59:53 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
Merge branch 'kb/name-hash'
The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon
a hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.
* kb/name-hash:
name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:59:37 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/pkt-line-cleanup'
Clean up pkt-line API, implementation and its callers to make them
more robust.
* jk/pkt-line-cleanup:
do not use GIT_TRACE_PACKET=3 in tests
remote-curl: always parse incoming refs
remote-curl: move ref-parsing code up in file
remote-curl: pass buffer straight to get_remote_heads
teach get_remote_heads to read from a memory buffer
pkt-line: share buffer/descriptor reading implementation
pkt-line: provide a LARGE_PACKET_MAX static buffer
pkt-line: move LARGE_PACKET_MAX definition from sideband
pkt-line: teach packet_read_line to chomp newlines
pkt-line: provide a generic reading function with options
pkt-line: drop safe_write function
pkt-line: move a misplaced comment
write_or_die: raise SIGPIPE when we get EPIPE
upload-archive: use argv_array to store client arguments
upload-archive: do not copy repo name
send-pack: prefer prefixcmp over memcmp in receive_status
fetch-pack: fix out-of-bounds buffer offset in get_ack
upload-pack: remove packet debugging harness
upload-pack: do not add duplicate objects to shallow list
upload-pack: use get_sha1_hex to parse "shallow" lines
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:59:23 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
Merge branch 'bc/append-signed-off-by'
Consolidate codepaths that inspect log-message-to-be and decide to
add a new Signed-off-by line in various commands.
* bc/append-signed-off-by:
git-commit: populate the edit buffer with 2 blank lines before s-o-b
Unify appending signoff in format-patch, commit and sequencer
format-patch: update append_signoff prototype
t4014: more tests about appending s-o-b lines
sequencer.c: teach append_signoff to avoid adding a duplicate newline
sequencer.c: teach append_signoff how to detect duplicate s-o-b
sequencer.c: always separate "(cherry picked from" from commit body
sequencer.c: require a conforming footer to be preceded by a blank line
sequencer.c: recognize "(cherry picked from ..." as part of s-o-b footer
t/t3511: add some tests of 'cherry-pick -s' functionality
t/test-lib-functions.sh: allow to specify the tag name to test_commit
commit, cherry-pick -s: remove broken support for multiline rfc2822 fields
sequencer.c: rework search for start of footer to improve clarity
In addition to the case where the user edits the log message with
the "e)dit" option of "am -i", replace the "Applying: this patch"
message with the final log message contents after applymsg hook
munges it.
* sr/am-show-final-message-in-applying-indicator:
git-am: show the final log message on "Applying:" indicator
Thomas Rast [Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:37:25 +0000 (10:37 +0200)]
tests: notice valgrind error in test_must_fail
We tell valgrind to return 126 if it notices that something is wrong,
but we did not actually handle this in test_must_fail, leading to
false negatives. Catch and report it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thomas Rast [Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:00:17 +0000 (10:00 +0200)]
tests --valgrind: provide a mode without --track-origins
With --valgrind=memcheck-fast, the tests run under memcheck but
without the autodetected --track-origins. If you just run valgrind to
see *if* there is any memory issue with your program, the extra
information is not needed, and it comes at a roughly 30% hit in
runtime.
While it is possible to achieve the same through GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS,
this should be more discoverable and hopefully encourage more users to
run their tests with valgrind.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thomas Rast [Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:00:16 +0000 (10:00 +0200)]
tests: parameterize --valgrind option
Running tests under helgrind and DRD recently proved useful in
tracking down thread interaction issues. This can unfortunately not
be done through GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS because any tool other than
memcheck would complain about unknown options.
Let --valgrind take an optional parameter that describes the valgrind
tool to invoke. The default mode is to run memcheck as before.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thomas Rast [Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:00:15 +0000 (10:00 +0200)]
t/README: --valgrind already implies -v
This was missed in 3da9365 (Tests: let --valgrind imply --verbose and
--tee, 2009-02-04).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sebastian Götte [Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:03:22 +0000 (18:03 +0200)]
pretty printing: extend %G? to include 'N' and 'U'
Expand %G? in pretty format strings to 'N' in case of no GPG signature
and 'U' in case of a good but untrusted GPG signature in addition to
the previous 'G'ood and 'B'ad. This eases writing anyting parsing
git-log output.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
send-email: use the three-arg form of open in recipients_cmd
Perlcritic does not want to see the trailing pipe in the two-args
form of open(), i.e.
open my $fh, "$cmd \Q$file\E |";
If $cmd were a single-token command name, it would make a lot more
sense to use four-or-more-args form "open FILEHANDLE,MODE,CMD,ARGS"
to avoid shell from expanding metacharacters in $file, but we do
expect multi-word string in $to_cmd and $cc_cmd to be expanded by
the shell, so we cannot rewrite it to
open my $fh, "-|", $cmd, $file;
for extra safety. At least, by using this in the three-arg form:
open my $fh, "-|", "$cmd \Q$file\E";
we can silence Perlcritic, even though we do not gain much safety by
doing so.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The subroutine check_file_rev_conflict() is called from two places,
both of which expects to pass a single scalar variable and see if
that can be interpreted as a pathname or a revision name. It is
defined with a function prototype ($) to force a scalar context
while evaluating the arguments at the calling site but it does not
help the current calling sites. The only effect it has is to hurt
future calling sites that may want to build an argument list in an
array variable and call it as check_file_rev_confict(@args).
Drop the misleading prototype, as Perlcritic suggests.
While at it, rename the function to avoid new call sites unaware of
this change arising and add a comment clarifying what this function
is for.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
send-email: use "return;" not "return undef;" on error codepaths
All the callers of "ask", "extract_valid_address", and "validate_patch"
subroutines assign the return values from them to a single scalar:
$var = subr(...);
and "return undef;" in these subroutine can safely be turned into a
simpler "return;". Doing so will also future-proof a new caller that
mistakenly does this:
@foo = ask(...);
if (@foo) { ... we got an answer ... } else { ... we did not ... }
Note that we leave "return undef;" in validate_address on purpose,
even though Perlcritic may complain. The primary "return" site of
the function returns whatever is in the scalar variable $address, so
it is pointless to change only the other "return undef;" to "return".
The caller must be prepared to see an array with a single undef as
the return value from this subroutine anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sebastian Götte [Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:02:24 +0000 (18:02 +0200)]
merge/pull: verify GPG signatures of commits being merged
When --verify-signatures is specified on the command-line of git-merge
or git-pull, check whether the commits being merged have good gpg
signatures and abort the merge in case they do not. This allows e.g.
auto-deployment from untrusted repo hosts.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:24:12 +0000 (15:24 -0700)]
peel_onion(): teach $foo^{object} peeler
A string that names an object can be suffixed with ^{type} peeler to
say "I have this object name; peel it until you get this type. If
you cannot do so, it is an error". v1.8.2^{commit} asks for a commit
that is pointed at an annotated tag v1.8.2; v1.8.2^{tree} unwraps it
further to the top-level tree object. A special suffix ^{} (i.e. no
type specified) means "I do not care what it unwraps to; just peel
annotated tag until you get something that is not a tag".
When you have a random user-supplied string, you can turn it to a
bare 40-hex object name, and cause it to error out if such an object
does not exist, with:
git rev-parse --verify "$userstring^{}"
for most objects, but this does not yield the tag object name when
$userstring refers to an annotated tag.
Introduce a new suffix, ^{object}, that only makes sure the given
name refers to an existing object. Then
git rev-parse --verify "$userstring^{object}"
becomes a way to make sure $userstring refers to an existing object.
This is necessary because the plumbing "rev-parse --verify" is only
about "make sure the argument is something we can feed to get_sha1()
and turn it into a raw 20-byte object name SHA-1" and is not about
"make sure that 20-byte object name SHA-1 refers to an object that
exists in our object store". When the given $userstring is already
a 40-hex, by definition "rev-parse --verify $userstring" can turn it
into a raw 20-byte object name. With "$userstring^{object}", we can
make sure that the 40-hex string names an object that exists in our
object store before "--verify" kicks in.
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