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Jeff King afe5d3d516 symbolic ref: refuse non-ref targets in HEAD
When calling "git symbolic-ref" it is easy to forget that
the target must be a fully qualified ref. E.g., you might
accidentally do:

  $ git symbolic-ref HEAD master

Unfortunately, this is very difficult to recover from,
because the bogus contents of HEAD make git believe we are
no longer in a git repository (as is_git_dir explicitly
checks for "^refs/heads/" in the HEAD target). So
immediately trying to fix the situation doesn't work:

  $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master
  fatal: Not a git repository

and one is left editing the .git/HEAD file manually.

Furthermore, one might be tempted to use symbolic-ref to set
up a detached HEAD:

  $ git symbolic-ref HEAD `git rev-parse HEAD`

which sets up an even more bogus HEAD:

  $ cat .git/HEAD
  ref: 1a9ace4f2ad4176148e61b5a85cd63d5604aac6d

This patch introduces a small safety valve to prevent the
specific case of anything not starting with refs/heads/ to
go into HEAD. The scope of the safety valve is intentionally
very limited, to make sure that we are not preventing any
behavior that would otherwise be valid (like pointing a
different symref than HEAD outside of refs/heads/).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-29 01:00:48 -08:00

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#!/bin/sh
test_description='basic symbolic-ref tests'
. ./test-lib.sh
# If the tests munging HEAD fail, they can break detection of
# the git repo, meaning that further tests will operate on
# the surrounding git repo instead of the trash directory.
reset_to_sane() {
echo ref: refs/heads/foo >.git/HEAD
}
test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref writes HEAD' '
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/foo &&
echo ref: refs/heads/foo >expect &&
test_cmp expect .git/HEAD
'
test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref reads HEAD' '
echo refs/heads/foo >expect &&
git symbolic-ref HEAD >actual &&
test_cmp expect actual
'
test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref refuses non-ref for HEAD' '
test_must_fail git symbolic-ref HEAD foo
'
reset_to_sane
test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref refuses non-branch for HEAD' '
test_must_fail git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/foo
'
reset_to_sane
test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref refuses bare sha1' '
echo content >file && git add file && git commit -m one
test_must_fail git symbolic-ref HEAD `git rev-parse HEAD`
'
reset_to_sane
test_done