The --batch code to print an object assumes we found out the type of
the object from calling oid_object_info_extended(). This is true for
the default format, but even in a custom format, we manually modify
the object_info struct to ask for the type.
This assumption was broken by 845de33a5b (cat-file: avoid noop calls
to sha1_object_info_extended, 2016-05-18). That commit skips the call
to oid_object_info_extended() entirely when --batch-all-objects is in
use, and the custom format does not include any placeholders that
require calling it.
Or when the custom format only include placeholders like %(objectname) or
%(rest), oid_object_info_extended() will not get the type of the object.
This results in an error when we try to confirm that the type didn't
change:
$ git cat-file --batch=batman --batch-all-objects
batman
fatal: object 000023961a changed type!?
and also has other subtle effects (e.g., we'd fail to stream a blob,
since we don't realize it's a blob in the first place).
We can fix this by flipping the order of the setup. The check for "do
we need to get the object info" must come _after_ we've decided
whether we need to look up the type.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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