Throw AmbiguousObjectException during resolve if its ambiguous

Its wrong to return null if we are resolving an abbreviation and we
have proven it matches more than one object.  We know how to resolve
it if we had more nybbles, as there are two or more objects with the
same prefix.  Declare that to the caller quite clearly by giving them
an AmbiguousObjectException.

Change-Id: I01bb48e587e6d001b93da8575c2c81af3eda5a32
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Repository.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Repository.java
index b62f62b347..078b293f41 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Repository.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/Repository.java
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 
 import org.eclipse.jgit.JGitText;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.dircache.DirCache;
+import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.AmbiguousObjectException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.CorruptObjectException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.IncorrectObjectTypeException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.MissingObjectException;
@@ -393,10 +394,15 @@ public abstract class Repository {
 	 * @param revstr
 	 *            A git object references expression
 	 * @return an ObjectId or null if revstr can't be resolved to any ObjectId
+	 * @throws AmbiguousObjectException
+	 *             {@code revstr} contains an abbreviated ObjectId and this
+	 *             repository contains more than one object which match to the
+	 *             input abbreviation.
 	 * @throws IOException
 	 *             on serious errors
 	 */
-	public ObjectId resolve(final String revstr) throws IOException {
+	public ObjectId resolve(final String revstr)
+			throws AmbiguousObjectException, IOException {
 		RevWalk rw = new RevWalk(this);
 		try {
 			return resolve(rw, revstr);
@@ -584,6 +590,8 @@ public abstract class Repository {
 				Collection<ObjectId> matches = reader.resolve(id);
 				if (matches.size() == 1)
 					return matches.iterator().next();
+				if (1 < matches.size())
+					throw new AmbiguousObjectException(id, matches);
 			} finally {
 				reader.release();
 			}