The Repository class provides only one method to look up a ref by
name, getRef. If I request refs/heads/master and that ref does not
exist, getRef will look further in the search path:
ref/refs/heads/master
refs/heads/refs/heads/master
refs/remotes/refs/heads/master
This behavior is counterintuitive, needlessly inexpensive, and usually
not what the caller expects.
Allow callers to specify whether to use the search path by providing
two separate methods:
- exactRef, which looks up a ref when its exact name is known
- findRef, which looks for a ref along the search path
For backward compatibility, keep getRef as a deprecated synonym for
findRef.
This change introduces findRef and exactRef but does not update
callers outside tests to use them yet.
Change-Id: I35375d942baeb3ded15520388f8ebb9c0cc86f8c
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrn@google.com>
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