Allow the GIT ids to be more flexible

The current implementation does not allow hash values or other *HEAD
names to be passed to the 'diff' command.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>

diff --git a/stgit/commands/common.py b/stgit/commands/common.py
index 293bd2e..db0466d 100644 (file)
--- a/stgit/commands/common.py
+++ b/stgit/commands/common.py
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ def git_id(string):
             id_file = os.path.join(path, git_id)
             if os.path.isfile(id_file):
                 return read_string(id_file)
+
+        # maybe GIT know more about this id
+        return git_id
     elif len(string_list) == 2:
         patch_name = string_list[0]
         if patch_name == '':