[PATCH v5 3/4] submodule: port set_name_rev() from shell to C

@@ -246,6 +246,68 @@ static char *get_submodule_displaypath(const char *path, const char *prefix)
 	}
 }
 
+static char *compute_rev_name(const char *sub_path, const char* object_id)
+{
+	struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+	const char ***d;
+
+	static const char *describe_bare[] = {
+		NULL
+	};
+
+	static const char *describe_tags[] = {
+		"--tags", NULL
+	};
+
+	static const char *describe_contains[] = {
+		"--contains", NULL
+	};
+
+	static const char *describe_all_always[] = {
+		"--all", "--always", NULL
+	};
+
+	static const char **describe_argv[] = {
+		describe_bare, describe_tags, describe_contains,
+		describe_all_always, NULL
+	};
+
+	for (d = describe_argv; *d; d++) {
+		struct child_process cp = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
+		prepare_submodule_repo_env(&cp.env_array);
+		cp.dir = sub_path;
+		cp.git_cmd = 1;
+		cp.no_stderr = 1;
+
+		argv_array_push(&cp.args, "describe");
+		argv_array_pushv(&cp.args, *d);
+		argv_array_push(&cp.args, object_id);
+
+		if (!capture_command(&cp, &sb, 0) && sb.len) {
+			strbuf_strip_suffix(&sb, "\n");
+			return strbuf_detach(&sb, NULL);
+		}
+	}
+
+	strbuf_release(&sb);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static int get_rev_name(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
+{
+	char *revname;
+	if (argc != 3)
+		die("get-rev-name only accepts two arguments: <path> <sha1>");
+
+	revname = compute_rev_name(argv[1], argv[2]);
+	if (revname && revname[0])
+		printf(" (%s)", revname);
+	printf("\n");
+
+	free(revname);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 struct module_list {
 	const struct cache_entry **entries;
 	int alloc, nr;

@@ -1293,6 +1355,7 @@ static struct cmd_struct commands[] = {
 	{"relative-path", resolve_relative_path, 0},
 	{"resolve-relative-url", resolve_relative_url, 0},
 	{"resolve-relative-url-test", resolve_relative_url_test, 0},
+	{"get-rev-name", get_rev_name, 0},
 	{"init", module_init, SUPPORT_SUPER_PREFIX},
 	{"remote-branch", resolve_remote_submodule_branch, 0},
 	{"push-check", push_check, 0},

@@ -758,18 +758,6 @@ cmd_update()
 	}
 }
 
-set_name_rev () {
-	revname=$( (
-		sanitize_submodule_env
-		cd "$1" && {
-			git describe "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
-			git describe --tags "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
-			git describe --contains "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
-			git describe --all --always "$2"
-		}
-	) )
-	test -z "$revname" || revname=" ($revname)"
-}
 #
 # Show commit summary for submodules in index or working tree
 #

@@ -1041,14 +1029,14 @@ cmd_status()
 		fi
 		if git diff-files --ignore-submodules=dirty --quiet -- "$sm_path"
 		then
-			set_name_rev "$sm_path" "$sha1"
+			revname=$(git submodule--helper get-rev-name "$sm_path" "$sha1")
 			say " $sha1 $displaypath$revname"
 		else
 			if test -z "$cached"
 			then
 				sha1=$(sanitize_submodule_env; cd "$sm_path" && git rev-parse --verify HEAD)
 			fi
-			set_name_rev "$sm_path" "$sha1"
+			revname=$(git submodule--helper get-rev-name "$sm_path" "$sha1")
 			say "+$sha1 $displaypath$revname"
 		fi