--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2005 Martin Langhoff
+#
+# Walk the tags and find if they match a commit
+# expects a SHA1 of a commit. Option -t enables
+# searching trees too.
+#
+
+use strict;
+use File::Basename;
+use File::Find;
+use Getopt::Std;
+
+my $git_dir = $ENV{GIT_DIR} || '.git';
+$git_dir =~ s|/$||; # chomp trailing slash
+
+# options
+our $opt_t;
+getopts("t") || usage();
+
+my @tagfiles = `find $git_dir/refs/tags -follow -type f`; # haystack
+my $target = shift @ARGV; # needle
+unless ($target) {
+ usage();
+}
+
+# drive the processing from the find hook
+# slower, safer (?) than the find utility
+find( { wanted => \&process,
+ no_chdir => 1,
+ follow => 1,
+ }, "$git_dir/refs/tags");
+
+
+sub process {
+ my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid);
+
+ # process only regular files
+ unless ((($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_)) && -f _) {
+ return 1; # ignored anyway
+ }
+
+ my $tagfile = $_;
+ chomp $tagfile;
+ my $tagname = substr($tagfile, length($git_dir.'/refs/tags/'));
+
+ my $tagid = quickread($tagfile);
+ chomp $tagid;
+
+ # is it just a soft tag?
+ if ($tagid eq $target) {
+ print "$tagname\n";
+ return 1; # done with this tag
+ }
+
+ # grab the first 2 lines (the whole tag could be large)
+ my $tagobj = `git-cat-file tag $tagid | head -n2 `;
+ if ($tagobj =~ m/^type commit$/m) { # only deal with commits
+
+ if ($tagobj =~ m/^object $target$/m) { # match on the commit
+ print "$tagname\n";
+
+ } elsif ( $opt_t && # follow the commit
+ $tagobj =~ m/^object (\S+)$/m) { # and try to match trees
+ my $commitid = $1;
+ my $commitobj = `git-cat-file commit $commitid | head -n1`;
+ chomp $commitobj;
+ $commitobj =~ m/^tree (\S+)$/;
+ my $treeid = $1;
+ if ($target eq $treeid) {
+ print "$tagname\n";
+ }
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+sub quickread {
+ my $file = shift;
+ local $/; # undef: slurp mode
+ open FILE, "<$file"
+ or die "Cannot open $file : $!";
+ my $content = <FILE>;
+ close FILE;
+ return $content;
+}
+
+sub usage {
+ print STDERR <<END;
+Usage: ${\basename $0} # find tags for a commit or tree
+ [ -t ] <commit-or-tree-sha1>
+END
+ exit(1);
+}