Feat/recognise shorthands

.gitignore

@@ -31,9 +31,16 @@
 *.out
 *.app
 app/gyt
-tests/tests
 build/**/*
 
+# Tests
+tests/tests
+tests/_deps
+tests/.ninja*
+tests/app/gyt
+tests/Testing
+tests/build.ninja
+
 # CMake files
 *.cmake
 **/CMakeFiles/

doc/commands/branches.md

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Branches
+
+A branch:
+- is a ref under ref/heads
+
+# commands that creates branches
+
+`git branch -c`
+`git checkout -b`
+`git switch -c`

src/commands/cat-file.cpp

@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ void catfile(std::vector<std::string> &args) {
   try {
     std::optional<GitRepository> repo = GitRepository::find();
     if (repo) {
-      // TODO use GitObject::find once it's fixed
-      GitObject *obj = GitObject::read(*repo, hash);
+      GitObject *obj = GitObject::read(*repo, GitObject::find(*repo, hash));
       std::cout << obj->serialise(*repo);
     }
   } catch (std::runtime_error &err) {

src/commands/checkout.cpp

@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ void checkout(std::vector<std::string> &args) {
   try {
     std::optional<GitRepository> repo = GitRepository::find();
     if (repo) {
-      GitCommit *commit =
-          dynamic_cast<GitCommit *>(GitObject::read(*repo, hash));
+      GitCommit *commit = dynamic_cast<GitCommit *>(
+          GitObject::read(*repo, GitObject::find(*repo, hash)));
       if (!commit) {
         throw std::runtime_error("Invalid commit object: " + hash);
       }

src/commands/log.cpp

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ void log(std::vector<std::string> &args) {
   try {
     std::optional<GitRepository> repo = GitRepository::find();
     if (repo) {
-      std::string commit = commitArg.getValue();
+      std::string commit = GitObject::find(*repo, commitArg.getValue());
       GitCommit *commitObj;
 
       do {

src/commands/ls-tree.cpp

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "commands/ls-tree.h"
 #include <iostream>
+#include <string>
 
 #include "object.h"
 #include "repository.h"

src/object.cpp

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "object.h"
 #include "blob.h"
+#include "boost/algorithm/string/case_conv.hpp"
 #include "commit.h"
 #include "tree.h"
 #include "util.h"
@@ -90,18 +91,26 @@ std::string GitObject::write(GitRepository &repo, std::string &type,
   }
 }
 
-// TODO support hashes here
+// XXX: food for thought: how does git handle the situation where
+// the branch name is the same as a tag?
 std::string GitObject::find(GitRepository &repo, const std::string &name,
                             bool follow) {
   fs::path ref_path;
-  if (name == "HEAD") {
+  std::string ref_name = boost::algorithm::to_lower_copy(name);
+  if (ref_name == "head") {
     ref_path = repo.repo_path("HEAD");
+  } else if (fs::exists(repo.repo_path("refs/heads/" + ref_name))) {
+    ref_path = repo.repo_path("refs/heads/" + ref_name);
+  } else if (fs::exists(repo.repo_path("refs/tags/" + ref_name))) {
+    ref_path = repo.repo_path("refs/tags/" + ref_name);
+  } else if (fs::exists(repo.repo_path("refs/remotes/" + ref_name))) {
+    ref_path = repo.repo_path("refs/remotes/" + ref_name);
+  } else if (fs::exists(repo.repo_path(get_commit_path(ref_name)))) {
+    return ref_name;
   } else {
-    ref_path = repo.repo_path("refs/heads/" + name);
+    throw std::runtime_error(name + ": not a valid reference");
   }
-  std::string file_data = read_file(ref_path, true);
-  std::string commit_hash = file_data.substr(5);
-  return read_file(repo.repo_path(commit_hash), true);
+  return resolve_ref(ref_path, repo);
 }
 
 std::string GitObject::get_type() const { return this->format; }

test.sh

@@ -20,19 +20,18 @@ fi
 echo "Selected build type: $BUILD_TYPE" 
 echo "Building the project... This will take a while to install dependencies for the first time."
 
-mv ../tests/gitrepo/.notgit ../tests/gitrepo/.git
+rm -rf ../tests/gitrepo/.git
+cp -R ../tests/gitrepo/.notgit ../tests/gitrepo/.git
 
 #Run CMake with the selected build type
-cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$BUILD_TYPE -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=1 -G Ninja
+cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$BUILD_TYPE -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=1 -DBUILD_TESTS=ON -G Ninja
 
 #Build the project
 ninja
 
 # test
 ctest --output-on-failure
 
-mv ../tests/gitrepo/.git ../tests/gitrepo/.notgit
-
 #symlink - so I can run it like gyt[arguments....]
 sudo rm /usr/local/bin/gyt 
 sudo ln -s "$(pwd)/app/gyt" /usr/local/bin/gyt

tests/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-add_executable(tests tests.cpp repository_t.cpp tag_t.cpp)
+add_executable(tests tests.cpp repository_t.cpp tag_t.cpp object_t.cpp utils/gitreposetup.cpp)
 target_include_directories(tests PUBLIC ../ext)
 
 target_link_libraries(tests PUBLIC boost_libraries repository commands)
 file(COPY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/gitrepo 
-     DESTINATION ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/tests
-     FILES_MATCHING PATTERN ".*" PATTERN "*" EXCLUDE)
+     DESTINATION ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/tests)
 
 # allow user to run tests with `make test` or `ctest`
 include(../cmake/Catch.cmake)