Remove misguided branch disambiguation.

[git.git] / sha1_name.c

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index bf8f0f0e1feef55ba6be764f60815d15036efa4e..49e2cc394f2ebe710ccdbe0aff63eeda90d4718b 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -238,7 +238,6 @@ static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
                NULL
        };
        const char **p;
-       int found = 0;
 
        if (len == 40 && !get_sha1_hex(str, sha1))
                return 0;
@@ -249,36 +248,10 @@ static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
 
        for (p = prefix; *p; p++) {
                char *pathname = git_path("%s/%.*s", *p, len, str);
-
-               if (!read_ref(pathname, sha1)) {
-                       /* Must be unique; i.e. when heads/foo and
-                        * tags/foo are both present, reject "foo".
-                        */
-                       if (1 < found++)
-                               return -1;
-               }
-
-               /* We want to allow .git/description file and
-                * "description" branch to exist at the same time.
-                * "git-rev-parse description" should silently skip
-                * .git/description file as a candidate for
-                * get_sha1().  However, having garbage file anywhere
-                * under refs/ is not OK, and we would not have caught
-                * ambiguous heads and tags with the above test.
-                */
-               else if (**p && !access(pathname, F_OK)) {
-                       /* Garbage exists under .git/refs */
-                       return error("garbage ref found '%s'", pathname);
-               }
-       }
-       switch (found) {
-       case 0:
-               return -1;
-       case 1:
-               return 0;
-       default:
-               return error("ambiguous refname '%.*s'", len, str);
+               if (!read_ref(pathname, sha1))
+                       return 0;
        }
+       return -1;
 }
 
 static int get_sha1_1(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1);