Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] gc: remove broken symrefs

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Oh, I appreciate your feedback. I am actually not all *that* certain
> that removing the broken symref is the correct thing. It is this sort
> of fruitful exchange that allows me to throw out an idea and be
> relatively certain that something better will come out of v3 or v8 of
> the patch series than what I had in mind.
>
> To be honest, the most important outcome is probably 2/4 -- which
> should be enough to fix the issue reported by the Git for Windows
> user. I could adjust the test so that it no longer insists that
> origin/HEAD` be deleted, but still requires that `git gc` succeeds.
>
> I would have no problem to let this sit for a couple of days until
> the final verdict.

... and a few days have passed.  I am tempted to do the easy bits
first, discarding the parts that both of us feel iffy for now
without prejudice, keeping the first two commits with a bit of
tweak.

The primary tweak is to t6500 in the first patch, which I retitled
below (and the patch shows s/failure/success/ but in the first step
that only adds a failing test, it would of course expect a failure).

And with "pack-objects: do not get distracted", the test will start
passing.

diff --git a/t/t6500-gc.sh b/t/t6500-gc.sh
index b736774..5d7d414 100755
--- a/t/t6500-gc.sh
+++ b/t/t6500-gc.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ test_expect_success 'gc -h with invalid configuration' '
 	test_i18ngrep "[Uu]sage" broken/usage
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'gc removes broken refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD' '
+test_expect_success 'gc is not aborted due to a stale symref' '
 	git init remote &&
 	(
 		cd remote &&
@@ -39,9 +39,7 @@ test_expect_failure 'gc removes broken refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD' '
 		git branch -m develop &&
 		cd ../client &&
 		git fetch --prune &&
-		git gc &&
-		git branch --list -r origin/HEAD >actual &&
-		test_line_count = 0 actual
+		git gc
 	)
 '
 
diff --git a/reachable.c b/reachable.c
index 6356ae8..4cfd0de 100644
--- a/reachable.c
+++ b/reachable.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static int add_one_ref(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1, int flag, vo
 	struct object *object;
 
 	if ((flag & REF_ISSYMREF) && (flag & REF_ISBROKEN)) {
-		warning("ref is broken: %s", path);
+		warning("symbolic ref is dangling: %s", path);
 		return 0;
 	}