contrib/subtree: unwrap tag refs

If a subtree was added using a tag ref, the tag ref is stored in
the subtree commit message instead of the underlying commit's ref.
To split or push subsequent changes to the subtree, the subtree
command needs to unwrap the tag ref.  This patch makes it do so.

The problem was described in a message to the mailing list from
Junio C Hamano dated 29 Apr 2014, with the subject "Re: git subtree
issue in more recent versions". The archived message can be found
at <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/247503>.

Signed-off-by: Rob Mayoff <mayoff@dqd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
This commit is contained in:
Rob Mayoff 2015-11-13 11:25:49 -06:00 committed by Jeff King
parent 5cb2e162d2
commit 5d65fe312e

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@ -245,7 +245,10 @@ find_latest_squash()
case "$a" in
START) sq="$b" ;;
git-subtree-mainline:) main="$b" ;;
git-subtree-split:) sub="$b" ;;
git-subtree-split:)
sub="$(git rev-parse "$b^0")" ||
die "could not rev-parse split hash $b from commit $sq"
;;
END)
if [ -n "$sub" ]; then
if [ -n "$main" ]; then
@ -278,7 +281,10 @@ find_existing_splits()
case "$a" in
START) sq="$b" ;;
git-subtree-mainline:) main="$b" ;;
git-subtree-split:) sub="$b" ;;
git-subtree-split:)
sub="$(git rev-parse "$b^0")" ||
die "could not rev-parse split hash $b from commit $sq"
;;
END)
debug " Main is: '$main'"
if [ -z "$main" -a -n "$sub" ]; then