From 9059525a75b91e6eb6a425f1edcc608739727168 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Thiel <byronimo@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 20:21:52 +0200
Subject: Made repo.py a package to allow better localization of functions and
 utilities - the repo module got rather large

---
 lib/git/refs.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/git/refs.py')

diff --git a/lib/git/refs.py b/lib/git/refs.py
index 8b773ae7..be094d01 100644
--- a/lib/git/refs.py
+++ b/lib/git/refs.py
@@ -208,9 +208,8 @@ class SymbolicReference(object):
 			try:
 				write_value = ref.commit.hexsha
 			except AttributeError:
-				sha = str(ref)
 				try:
-					obj = Object.new_from_sha(self.repo, hex_to_bin(sha))
+					obj = self.repo.rev_parse(ref+"^{}")	# optionally deref tags
 					if obj.type != "commit":
 						raise TypeError("Invalid object type behind sha: %s" % sha)
 					write_value = obj.hexsha
-- 
cgit v1.2.1