rev-list: teach --no-object-names to enable piping

Allow easier parsing by cat-file by giving rev-list an option to print
only the OID of a non-commit object without any additional information.
This is a short-term shim; later on, rev-list should be taught how to
print the types of objects it finds in a format similar to cat-file's.

Before this commit, the output from rev-list needed to be massaged
before being piped to cat-file, like so:

  git rev-list --objects HEAD | cut -f 1 -d ' ' |
    git cat-file --batch-check

This was especially unexpected when dealing with root trees, as an
invisible whitespace exists at the end of the OID:

  git rev-list --objects --filter=tree:1 --max-count=1 HEAD |
    xargs -I% echo "AA%AA"

Now, it can be piped directly, as in the added test case:

  git rev-list --objects --no-object-names HEAD | git cat-file --batch-check

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Change-Id: I489bdf0a8215532e540175188883ff7541d70e1b
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh b/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh
index 0507999729..52a9e38d66 100755
--- a/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh
+++ b/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh
@@ -48,6 +48,26 @@ test_expect_success 'rev-list --objects with pathspecs and copied files' '
 	! grep one output
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'rev-list --objects --no-object-names has no space/names' '
+	git rev-list --objects --no-object-names HEAD >output &&
+	! grep wanted_file output &&
+	! grep unwanted_file output &&
+	! grep " " output
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rev-list --objects --no-object-names works with cat-file' '
+	git rev-list --objects --no-object-names --all >list-output &&
+	git cat-file --batch-check <list-output >cat-output &&
+	! grep missing cat-output
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--no-object-names and --object-names are last-one-wins' '
+	git rev-list --objects --no-object-names --object-names --all >output &&
+	grep wanted_file output &&
+	git rev-list --objects --object-names --no-object-names --all >output &&
+	! grep wanted_file output
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'rev-list A..B and rev-list ^A B are the same' '
 	git commit --allow-empty -m another &&
 	git tag -a -m "annotated" v1.0 &&