25. Revparse

These methods help in findings refs and parsing revision strings for git objects.

25.1. revparse

parameters	Returns
luagit2_repository	luagit2_revspec
spec (string)

1. luagit2_repository : The repository from where to look for and parse the given spec string.
2. spec : The spec string to parse. example : origin/master..HEAD to get refspec data between master and HEAD.

Note

See man gitrevisions or http://git-scm.com/docs/git-rev-parse.html#_specifying_revisions for information on the syntax of spec string accepted.

• Returns luagit2_revspec which can be later used by helper methods : revspec_from() and revspec_to() to get the From &`to` objects pointed by luagit2_revspec,

25.2. revparse_single

parameters	Returns
luagit2_repository	luagit2_object
spec (string)

1. luagit2_repository : The repository from where to look for and parse the given spec string.
2. spec : The spec string to parse. This should point to only one of the objects.

• Returns corresponding luagit2_object being pointed or gives an error.