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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] branch: forbid refs/heads/HEAD
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:11:00 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqefq6v5qj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171013131501.3qarwhanktfvgjqd@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:15:01 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 02:11:32PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> strbuf_check_branch_ref() is the central place where many codepaths
>> see if a proposed name is suitable for the name of a branch.  It was
>> designed to allow us to get stricter than the check_refname_format()
>> check used for refnames in general, and we already use it to reject
>> a branch whose name begins with a '-'.
>> 
>> Use it to also reject "HEAD" as a branch name.
>
> Heh, I just pointed somebody to this a day or two ago as #leftoverbit. I
> guess it's taken now. :)

Didn't notice /remember it; sorry about that.  I can retract it if
you want, but perhaps they cannot unsee it ;-)

>> diff --git a/t/t1430-bad-ref-name.sh b/t/t1430-bad-ref-name.sh
>> index e88349c8a0..3ecb2eab0c 100755
>> --- a/t/t1430-bad-ref-name.sh
>> +++ b/t/t1430-bad-ref-name.sh
>> @@ -331,4 +331,12 @@ test_expect_success 'update-ref --stdin -z fails delete with bad ref name' '
>>  	grep "fatal: invalid ref format: ~a" err
>>  '
>>  
>> +test_expect_success 'branch rejects HEAD as a branch name' '
>> +	test_must_fail git branch HEAD HEAD^
>> +'
>> +
>> +test_expect_success 'checkout -b rejects HEAD as a branch name' '
>> +	test_must_fail git checkout -B HEAD HEAD^
>> +'
>
> Should we test that:
>
>   git update-ref refs/heads/HEAD HEAD^
>
> continues to work?

Perhaps.  Also we may want to make sure that "git branch -D HEAD"
still works as a way to recover from historical mistakes.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-14  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-13  5:11 [PATCH 0/3] a small branch API clean-up Junio C Hamano
2017-10-13  5:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] branch: streamline "attr_only" handling in validate_new_branchname() Junio C Hamano
2017-10-13  7:05   ` Eric Sunshine
2017-10-13  5:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] branch: split validate_new_branchname() into two Junio C Hamano
2017-10-21  4:58   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-10-21  9:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-13  5:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] branch: forbid refs/heads/HEAD Junio C Hamano
2017-10-13 13:15   ` Jeff King
2017-10-14  2:11     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-10-14  2:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-16 21:38         ` Jeff King
2017-10-21  4:50         ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-10-21  8:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-22  5:00             ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-10-21  3:07 ` [PATCH 0/3] a small branch API clean-up Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-10-21  8:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-22  4:36     ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-11-14 11:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] branch: forbid refs/heads/HEAD Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-11-14 11:42   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] builtin/branch: remove redundant check for HEAD Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-11-14 12:00   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] branch: forbid refs/heads/HEAD Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-11-14 15:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-15 16:59       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-11-15 22:14         ` [PATCH 3/4] branch: correctly reject refs/heads/{-dash,HEAD} Junio C Hamano
2017-11-16 13:11           ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-11-16 14:57             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-16 17:02               ` Kaartic Sivaraam

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