[PATCH] local-pull: implement fetch_ref()

This makes "-w ref" usable for git-local-pull.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Documentation/git-local-pull.txt

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-local-pull - Duplicates another GIT repository on a local system
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-local-pull' [-c] [-t] [-a] [-l] [-s] [-n] [-v] [-d] [--recover] commit-id path
+'git-local-pull' [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [--recover] [-l] [-s] [-n] commit-id path
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -32,10 +32,13 @@ OPTIONS
 	usual, to recover after earlier pull that was interrupted.
 -v::
 	Report what is downloaded.
+-w::
+        Writes the commit-id into the filename under $GIT_DIR/refs/ on
+        the local end after the transfer is complete.
 
 Author
 ------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
 
 Documentation
 --------------

local-pull.c

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ static int use_link = 0;
 static int use_symlink = 0;
 static int use_filecopy = 1;
 
-static char *path;
+static char *path; /* "Remote" git repository */
 
 int fetch(unsigned char *sha1)
 {
@@ -75,11 +75,34 @@ int fetch(unsigned char *sha1)
 
 int fetch_ref(char *ref, unsigned char *sha1)
 {
-	return -1;
+	static int ref_name_start = -1;
+	static char filename[PATH_MAX];
+	static char hex[41];
+	int ifd;
+
+	if (ref_name_start < 0) {
+		sprintf(filename, "%s/refs/", path);
+		ref_name_start = strlen(filename);
+	}
+	strcpy(filename + ref_name_start, ref);
+	ifd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
+	if (ifd < 0) {
+		close(ifd);
+		fprintf(stderr, "cannot open %s\n", filename);
+		return -1;
+	}
+	if (read(ifd, hex, 40) != 40 || get_sha1_hex(hex, sha1)) {
+		close(ifd);
+		fprintf(stderr, "cannot read from %s\n", filename);
+		return -1;
+	}
+	close(ifd);
+	pull_say("ref %s\n", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static const char *local_pull_usage = 
-"git-local-pull [-c] [-t] [-a] [-l] [-s] [-n] [-v] [-d] [--recover] commit-id path";
+"git-local-pull [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [--recover] [-l] [-s] [-n] commit-id path";
 
 /* 
  * By default we only use file copy.
@@ -114,6 +137,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			use_filecopy = 0;
 		else if (argv[arg][1] == 'v')
 			get_verbosely = 1;
+		else if (argv[arg][1] == 'w')
+			write_ref = argv[++arg];
 		else
 			usage(local_pull_usage);
 		arg++;