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git/builtin.h
Linus Torvalds 358ddb62cf Add "git show-ref" builtin command
It's kind of like "git peek-remote", but works only locally (and thus
avoids the whole overhead of git_connect()) and has some extra
verification features.

For example, it allows you to filter the results, and to choose whether
you want the tag dereferencing or not. You can also use it to just test
whether a particular ref exists.

For example:

	git show-ref master

will show all references called "master", whether tags or heads or
anything else, and regardless of how deep in the reference naming
hierarchy they are (so it would show "refs/heads/master" but also
"refs/remote/other-repo/master").

When using the "--verify" flag, the command requires an exact ref path:

	git show-ref --verify refs/heads/master

will only match the exact branch called "master".

If nothing matches, show-ref will return an error code of 1, and in the
case of verification, it will show an error message.

For scripting, you can ask it to be quiet with the "--quiet" flag, which
allows you to do things like

	git-show-ref --quiet --verify -- "refs/heads/$headname" ||
		echo "$headname is not a valid branch"

to check whether a particular branch exists or not (notice how we don't
actually want to show any results, and we want to use the full refname for
it in order to not trigger the problem with ambiguous partial matches).

To show only tags, or only proper branch heads, use "--tags" and/or
"--heads" respectively (using both means that it shows tags _and_ heads,
but not other random references under the refs/ subdirectory).

To do automatic tag object dereferencing, use the "-d" or "--dereference"
flag, so you can do

	git show-ref --tags --dereference

to get a listing of all tags together with what they dereference.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-16 02:23:51 -07:00

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#ifndef BUILTIN_H
#define BUILTIN_H
#include "git-compat-util.h"
extern const char git_version_string[];
extern const char git_usage_string[];
extern void help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd);
extern int mailinfo(FILE *in, FILE *out, int ks, const char *encoding, const char *msg, const char *patch);
extern int split_mbox(const char **mbox, const char *dir, int allow_bare, int nr_prec, int skip);
extern void stripspace(FILE *in, FILE *out);
extern int write_tree(unsigned char *sha1, int missing_ok, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_apply(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_checkout_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_check_ref_format(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_commit_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_count_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_diff_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_diff_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_diff_stages(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_diff_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_fmt_merge_msg(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_get_tar_commit_id(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_init_db(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_log(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_ls_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_ls_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_mailinfo(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_mailsplit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_mv(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_name_rev(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_pack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_prune(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_prune_packed(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_push(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_read_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_repo_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_rev_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_rev_parse(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_show_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_show(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_stripspace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_tar_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_zip_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_unpack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_update_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_upload_tar(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_whatchanged(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_write_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_verify_pack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_show_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
#endif