It has been reported that core.hideDotFiles=false stopped working...
This topic branch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is a brown paper bag. When adding the tests, we actually failed
to verify that the config variable is heeded in git-init at all. And
when changing the original patch that marked the .git/ directory as
hidden after reading the config, it was lost on this developer that
the new code would use the hide_dotfiles variable before the config
was read.
The fix is obvious: read the (limited, pre-init) config *before*
creating the .git/ directory.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/789
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch introduces a highly-experimental feature allowing to
override stdin/stdout/stderr by setting environment variables e.g. to
named pipes, solving a problem in highly multi-threaded applications
where inheritable handles could cause blocked Git operations.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When an user tries to create an empty bundle via `git bundle create
<bundle> <revlist>` where <revlist> resolves to an empty list (for
example, like `master..master`), the command fails and warns the user
about how it don't want to create empty bundle.
However, on Windows the .lock file was still open and could not be
deleted properly. This patch fixes that issue.
This closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/790
Signed-off-by: Gaël Lhez <gael.lhez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
These fixes were necessary for Sverre Rabbelier's remote-hg to work,
but for some magic reason they are not necessary for the current
remote-hg. Makes you wonder how that one gets away with it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In particular on Windows, where the default maximum path length is quite
small, but there are ways to circumvent that limit in many cases, it is
very important that users be given an indication why their command
failed because of too long paths when it did.
This test case makes sure that a warning is issued that would have
helped the user who reported Git for Windows' issue 521:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/521
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When passing a command-line to call an external diff command to the
difftool, we must be prepared for paths containing special characters,
e.g. backslashes in the temporary directory's path on Windows.
This has been caught by running the test suite with an MSVC-built Git:
in contrast to the MINGW one, it does not rewrite `$TMP` to use forward
slashes instead of backslashes.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch introduces a highly-experimental feature allowing to
override stdin/stdout/stderr by setting environment variables e.g. to
named pipes, solving a problem in highly multi-threaded applications
where inheritable handles could cause blocked Git operations.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This was probably missed because nobody had a left-over `trash/`
directory and the `-f` flag made sure that no error message was
produced when the file was not found that *actually* wanted to
be removed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This happens only when the corresponding commits are not exported in
the current fast-export run. This can happen either when the relevant
commit is already marked, or when the commit is explicitly marked
as UNINTERESTING with a negative ref by another argument.
This breaks fast-export basec remote helpers.
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
There is a really useful debugging technique developed by Sverre
Rabbelier that inserts "bash &&" somewhere in the test scripts, letting
the developer interact at given points with the current state.
Another debugging technique, used a lot by this here coder, is to run
certain executables via gdb by guarding a "gdb -args" call in
bin-wrappers/git.
Both techniques were disabled by 781f76b1(test-lib: redirect stdin of
tests).
Let's reinstate the ability to run an interactive shell by making the
redirection optional: setting the TEST_NO_REDIRECT environment variable
will skip the redirection.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Windows paths are typically limited to MAX_PATH = 260 characters, even
though the underlying NTFS file system supports paths up to 32,767 chars.
This limitation is also evident in Windows Explorer, cmd.exe and many
other applications (including IDEs).
Particularly annoying is that most Windows APIs return bogus error codes
if a relative path only barely exceeds MAX_PATH in conjunction with the
current directory, e.g. ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND / ENOENT instead of the
infinitely more helpful ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE / ENAMETOOLONG.
Many Windows wide char APIs support longer than MAX_PATH paths through the
file namespace prefix ('\\?\' or '\\?\UNC\') followed by an absolute path.
Notable exceptions include functions dealing with executables and the
current directory (CreateProcess, LoadLibrary, Get/SetCurrentDirectory) as
well as the entire shell API (ShellExecute, SHGetSpecialFolderPath...).
Introduce a handle_long_path function to check the length of a specified
path properly (and fail with ENAMETOOLONG), and to optionally expand long
paths using the '\\?\' file namespace prefix. Short paths will not be
modified, so we don't need to worry about device names (NUL, CON, AUX).
Contrary to MSDN docs, the GetFullPathNameW function doesn't seem to be
limited to MAX_PATH (at least not on Win7), so we can use it to do the
heavy lifting of the conversion (translate '/' to '\', eliminate '.' and
'..', and make an absolute path).
Add long path error checking to xutftowcs_path for APIs with hard MAX_PATH
limit.
Add a new MAX_LONG_PATH constant and xutftowcs_long_path function for APIs
that support long paths.
While improved error checking is always active, long paths support must be
explicitly enabled via 'core.longpaths' option. This is to prevent end
users to shoot themselves in the foot by checking out files that Windows
Explorer, cmd/bash or their favorite IDE cannot handle.
Test suite:
Test the case is when the full pathname length of a dir is close
to 260 (MAX_PATH).
Bug report and an original reproducer by Andrey Rogozhnikov:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/122#issuecomment-43604199
Note that the test cannot rely on the presence of short names, as they
are not enabled by default except on the system drive.
[jes: adjusted test number to avoid conflicts, reinstated && chain,
adjusted test to work without short names]
Thanks-to: Martin W. Kirst <maki@bitkings.de>
Thanks-to: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Original-test-by: Andrey Rogozhnikov <rogozhnikov.andrey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Windows paths are typically limited to MAX_PATH = 260 characters, even
though the underlying NTFS file system supports paths up to 32,767 chars.
This limitation is also evident in Windows Explorer, cmd.exe and many
other applications (including IDEs).
Particularly annoying is that most Windows APIs return bogus error codes
if a relative path only barely exceeds MAX_PATH in conjunction with the
current directory, e.g. ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND / ENOENT instead of the
infinitely more helpful ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE / ENAMETOOLONG.
Many Windows wide char APIs support longer than MAX_PATH paths through the
file namespace prefix ('\\?\' or '\\?\UNC\') followed by an absolute path.
Notable exceptions include functions dealing with executables and the
current directory (CreateProcess, LoadLibrary, Get/SetCurrentDirectory) as
well as the entire shell API (ShellExecute, SHGetSpecialFolderPath...).
Introduce a handle_long_path function to check the length of a specified
path properly (and fail with ENAMETOOLONG), and to optionally expand long
paths using the '\\?\' file namespace prefix. Short paths will not be
modified, so we don't need to worry about device names (NUL, CON, AUX).
Contrary to MSDN docs, the GetFullPathNameW function doesn't seem to be
limited to MAX_PATH (at least not on Win7), so we can use it to do the
heavy lifting of the conversion (translate '/' to '\', eliminate '.' and
'..', and make an absolute path).
Add long path error checking to xutftowcs_path for APIs with hard MAX_PATH
limit.
Add a new MAX_LONG_PATH constant and xutftowcs_long_path function for APIs
that support long paths.
While improved error checking is always active, long paths support must be
explicitly enabled via 'core.longpaths' option. This is to prevent end
users to shoot themselves in the foot by checking out files that Windows
Explorer, cmd/bash or their favorite IDE cannot handle.
Test suite:
Test the case is when the full pathname length of a dir is close
to 260 (MAX_PATH).
Bug report and an original reproducer by Andrey Rogozhnikov:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/122#issuecomment-43604199
[jes: adjusted test number to avoid conflicts]
Thanks-to: Martin W. Kirst <maki@bitkings.de>
Thanks-to: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Original-test-by: Andrey Rogozhnikov <rogozhnikov.andrey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
[jes: adusted test number to avoid conflicts, fixed non-portable use of
the 'export' statement]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows ships with its own Perl interpreter, and insists on
using it, so it will most likely wreak havoc if PERL5LIB is set before
launching Git.
Let's just unset that environment variables when spawning processes.
To make this feature extensible (and overrideable), there is a new
config setting `core.unsetenvvars` that allows specifying a
comma-separated list of names to unset before spawning processes.
Reported by Gabriel Fuhrmann.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Make sure the helper does not crash when blank username and password is
provided. If the helper can save such credentials, it should be able to
read them back.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Bereżański <kuba@berezanscy.pl>
The "2>&1" notation in POSIX shells implies that stderr is redirected to
stdout. Let's special-case this value for the environment variable
GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR to allow writing to the same destination as stdout.
The functionality was suggested by Jeff Hostetler.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, file handles need to be marked inheritable when they need to
be used as standard input/output/error handles for a newly spawned
process. The problem with that, of course, is that the "inheritable" flag
is global and therefore can wreak havoc with highly multi-threaded
applications: other spawned processes will *also* inherit those file
handles, despite having *other* input/output/error handles, and never
close the former handles because they do not know about them.
Let's introduce a set of environment variables (GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN and
friends) that point to files, or even better, named pipes and that are
used by the spawned Git process. This helps work around above-mentioned
issue: those named pipes will be opened in a non-inheritable way upon
startup, and no handles are passed around.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Transactions to update multiple references that involves a deletion
was quite broken in an error codepath and did not abort everything
correctly.
* mh/ref-locking-fix:
files_transaction_prepare(): fix handling of ref lock failure
t1404: add a bunch of tests of D/F conflicts
Since dc39e09942 (files_ref_store: use a transaction to update packed
refs, 2017-09-08), failure to lock a reference has been handled
incorrectly by `files_transaction_prepare()`. If
`lock_ref_for_update()` fails in the lock-acquisition loop of that
function, it sets `ret` then breaks out of that loop. Prior to
dc39e09942, that was OK, because the only thing following the loop was
the cleanup code. But dc39e09942 added another blurb of code between
the loop and the cleanup. That blurb sometimes resets `ret` to zero,
making the cleanup code think that the locking was successful.
Specifically, whenever
* One or more reference deletions have been processed successfully in
the lock-acquisition loop. (Processing the first such reference
causes a packed-ref transaction to be initialized.)
* Then `lock_ref_for_update()` fails for a subsequent reference. Such
a failure can happen for a number of reasons, such as the old SHA-1
not being correct, lock contention, etc. This causes a `break` out
of the lock-acquisition loop.
* The `packed-refs` lock is acquired successfully and
`ref_transaction_prepare()` succeeds for the packed-ref transaction.
This has the effect of resetting `ret` back to 0, and making the
cleanup code think that lock acquisition was successful.
In that case, any reference updates that were processed prior to
breaking out of the loop would be carried out (loose and packed), but
the reference that couldn't be locked and any subsequent references
would silently be ignored.
This can easily cause data loss if, for example, the user was trying
to push a new name for an existing branch while deleting the old name.
After the push, the branch could be left unreachable, and could even
subsequently be garbage-collected.
This problem was noticed in the context of deleting one reference and
creating another in a single transaction, when the two references D/F
conflict with each other, like
git update-ref --stdin <<EOF
delete refs/foo
create refs/foo/bar HEAD
EOF
This triggers the above bug because the deletion is processed
successfully for `refs/foo`, then the D/F conflict causes
`lock_ref_for_update()` to fail when `refs/foo/bar` is processed. In
this case the transaction *should* fail, but instead it causes
`refs/foo` to be deleted without creating `refs/foo`. This could
easily result in data loss.
The fix is simple: instead of just breaking out of the loop, jump
directly to the cleanup code. This fixes some tests in t1404 that were
added in the previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is currently not allowed, in a single transaction, to add one
reference and delete another reference if the two reference names D/F
conflict with each other (e.g., like `refs/foo/bar` and `refs/foo`).
The reason is that the code would need to take locks
$GIT_DIR/refs/foo.lock
$GIT_DIR/refs/foo/bar.lock
But the latter lock couldn't coexist with the loose reference file
$GIT_DIR/refs/foo
, because `$GIT_DIR/refs/foo` cannot be both a directory and a file at
the same time (hence the name "D/F conflict).
Add a bunch of tests that we cleanly reject such transactions.
In fact, many of the new tests currently fail. They will be fixed in
the next commit along with an explanation.
Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the "theoretically more correct" approach of simply
stepping back to the state before plumbing commands started paying
attention to "color.ui" configuration variable.
Let's run with this one.
* jk/ref-filter-colors-fix:
tag: respect color.ui config
Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()"
Revert "t6006: drop "always" color config tests"
Revert "color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config"
Since 11b087adfd (ref-filter: consult want_color() before
emitting colors, 2017-07-13), we expect that setting
"color.ui" to "always" will enable color tag formats even
without a tty. As that commit was built on top of
136c8c8b8f (color: check color.ui in git_default_config(),
2017-07-13) from the same series, we didn't need to touch
tag's config parsing at all.
However, since we reverted 136c8c8b8f, we now need to
explicitly call git_color_default_config() to make this
work.
Let's do so, and also restore the test dropped in 0c88bf5050
(provide --color option for all ref-filter users,
2017-10-03). That commit swapped out our "color.ui=always"
test for "--color" in preparation for "always" going away.
But since it is here to stay, we should test both cases.
Note that for-each-ref also lost its color.ui support as
part of reverting 136c8c8b8f. But as a plumbing command, it
should _not_ respect the color.ui config. Since it also
gained a --color option in 0c88bf5050, that's the correct
way to ask it for color. We'll continue to test that, and
confirm that "color.ui" is not respected.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 136c8c8b8f.
That commit was trying to address a bug caused by 4c7f1819b3
(make color.ui default to 'auto', 2013-06-10), in which
plumbing like diff-tree defaulted to "auto" color, but did
not respect a "color.ui" directive to disable it.
But it also meant that we started respecting "color.ui" set
to "always". This was a known problem, but 4c7f1819b3 argued
that nobody ought to be doing that. However, that turned out
to be wrong, and we got a number of bug reports related to
"add -p" regressing in v2.14.2.
Let's revert 136c8c8b8, fixing the regression to "add -p".
This leaves the problem from 4c7f1819b3 unfixed, but:
1. It's a pretty obscure problem in the first place. I
only noticed it while working on the color code, and we
haven't got a single bug report or complaint about it.
2. We can make a more moderate fix on top by respecting
"never" but not "always" for plumbing commands. This
is just the minimal fix to go back to the working state
we had before v2.14.2.
Note that this isn't a pure revert. We now have a test in
t3701 which shows off the "add -p" regression. This can be
flipped to success.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit c5bdfe677c.
That commit was done primarily to prepare for the weakening
of "always" in 6be4595edb (color: make "always" the same as
"auto" in config, 2017-10-03). But since we've now reverted
6be4595edb, there's no need for us to remove "-c
color.ui=always" from the tests. And in fact it's a good
idea to restore these tests, to make sure that "always"
continues to work.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 6be4595edb.
That commit weakened the "always" setting of color config so
that it acted as "auto". This was meant to solve regressions
in v2.14.2 in which setting "color.ui=always" in the on-disk
config broke scripts like add--interactive, because the
plumbing diff commands began to generate color output.
This was due to 136c8c8b8f (color: check color.ui in
git_default_config(), 2017-07-13), which was in turn trying
to fix issues caused by 4c7f1819b3 (make color.ui default to
'auto', 2013-06-10). But in weakening "always", we created
even more problems, as people expect to be able to use "git
-c color.ui=always" to force color (especially because some
commands don't have their own --color flag). We can fix that
by special-casing the command-line "-c", but now things are
getting pretty confusing.
Instead of piling hacks upon hacks, let's start peeling off
the hacks. The first step is dropping the weakening of
"always", which this revert does.
Note that we could actually revert the whole series merged
in by da15b78e52. Most of that
series consists of preparations to the tests to handle the
weakening of "-c color.ui=always". But it's worth keeping
for a few reasons:
- there are some other preparatory cleanups, like
e433749d86 (test-terminal: set TERM=vt100, 2017-10-03)
- it adds "--color" options more consistently in
0c88bf5050 (provide --color option for all ref-filter
users, 2017-10-03)
- some of the cases dropping "-c" end up being more robust
and realistic tests, as in 01c94e9001 (t7508: use
test_terminal for color output, 2017-10-03)
- the preferred tool for overriding config is "--color",
and we should be modeling that consistently
We can individually revert the few commits necessary to
restore some useful tests (which will be done on top of this
patch).
Note that this isn't a pure revert; we'll keep the test
added in t3701, but mark it as failure for now.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint' (early part):
color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
provide --color option for all ref-filter users
t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
t3203: drop "always" color test
t6006: drop "always" color config tests
t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
t7508: use test_terminal for color output
t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
A recently added "--color-moved" feature of "diff" fell into
infinite loop when ignoring whitespace changes, which has been
fixed.
* sb/diff-color-move:
diff: fix infinite loop with --color-moved --ignore-space-change
The --color-moved code uses next_byte() to advance through
the blob contents. When the user has asked to ignore
whitespace changes, we try to collapse any whitespace change
down to a single space.
However, we enter the conditional block whenever we see the
IGNORE_WHITESPACE_CHANGE flag, even if the next byte isn't
whitespace.
This means that the combination of "--color-moved and
--ignore-space-change" was completely broken. Worse, because
we return from next_byte() without having advanced our
pointer, the function makes no forward progress in the
buffer and loops infinitely.
Fix this by entering the conditional only when we actually
see whitespace. We can apply this also to the
IGNORE_WHITESPACE change. That code path isn't buggy
(because it falls through to returning the next
non-whitespace byte), but it makes the logic more clear if
we only bother to look at whitespace flags after seeing that
the next byte is whitespace.
Reported-by: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An ancient bug that made Git misbehave with creation/renaming of
refs has been fixed.
* jk/refs-df-conflict:
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes
t3308: create a real ref directory/file conflict
Improve behaviour of "git fsck" upon finding a missing object.
* rs/fsck-null-return-from-lookup:
fsck: handle NULL return of lookup_blob() and lookup_tree()
"git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a new format element,
%(trailers), to show only the commit log trailer part of the log
message.
* tb/show-trailers-in-ref-filter:
ref-filter.c: parse trailers arguments with %(contents) atom
ref-filter.c: use trailer_opts to format trailers
t6300: refactor %(trailers) tests
doc: use "`<literal>`"-style quoting for literal strings
doc: 'trailers' is the preferred way to format trailers
t4205: unfold across multiple lines
In the "--format=..." option of the "git for-each-ref" command (and
its friends, i.e. the listing mode of "git branch/tag"), "%(atom:)"
(e.g. "%(refname:)", "%(body:)" used to error out. Instead, treat
them as if the colon and an empty string that follows it were not
there.
* tb/ref-filter-empty-modifier:
ref-filter.c: pass empty-string as NULL to atom parsers
Fix regression of "git add -p" for users with "color.ui = always"
in their configuration, by merging the topic below and adjusting it
for the 'master' front.
* jk/ui-color-always-to-auto:
t7301: use test_terminal to check color
t4015: use --color with --color-moved
color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
provide --color option for all ref-filter users
t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
t3203: drop "always" color test
t6006: drop "always" color config tests
t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
t7508: use test_terminal for color output
t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
The feature that allows --pretty='%(trailers)' to take modifiers
like "fold" and "only" used to separate these modifiers with a
comma, i.e. "%(trailers:fold:only)", but we changed our mind and
use a comma, i.e. "%(trailers:fold,only)". Fast track this change
before this new feature becomes part of any official release.
* tb/delimit-pretty-trailers-args-with-comma:
pretty.c: delimit "%(trailers)" arguments with ","
Fix the argument order for test_cmp. When given the expected
result first the diff shows the actual output with '+' and the
expectation with '-', which is the convention for our tests.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If our call to refs_read_raw_ref() fails, we check errno to
see if the ref is simply missing, or if we encountered a
more serious error. If it's just missing, then in "write"
mode (i.e., when RESOLVE_REFS_READING is not set), this is
perfectly fine.
However, checking for ENOENT isn't sufficient to catch all
missing-ref cases. In the filesystem backend, we may also
see EISDIR when we try to resolve "a" and "a/b" exists.
Likewise, we may see ENOTDIR if we try to resolve "a/b" and
"a" exists. In both of those cases, we know that our
resolved ref doesn't exist, but we return an error (rather
than reporting the refname and returning a null sha1).
This has been broken for a long time, but nobody really
noticed because the next step after resolving without the
READING flag is usually to lock the ref and write it. But in
both of those cases, the write will fail with the same
errno due to the directory/file conflict.
There are two cases where we can notice this, though:
1. If we try to write "a" and there's a leftover directory
already at "a", even though there is no ref "a/b". The
actual write is smart enough to move the empty "a" out
of the way.
This is reasonably rare, if only because the writing
code has to do an independent resolution before trying
its write (because the actual update_ref() code handles
this case fine). The notes-merge code does this, and
before the fix in the prior commit t3308 erroneously
expected this case to fail.
2. When resolving symbolic refs, we typically do not use
the READING flag because we want to resolve even
symrefs that point to unborn refs. Even if those unborn
refs could not actually be written because of d/f
conflicts with existing refs.
You can see this by asking "git symbolic-ref" to report
the target of a symref pointing past a d/f conflict.
We can fix the problem by recognizing the other "missing"
errnos and treating them like ENOENT. This should be safe to
do even for callers who are then going to actually write the
ref, because the actual writing process will fail if the d/f
conflict is a real one (and t1404 checks these cases).
Arguably this should be the responsibility of the
files-backend to normalize all "missing ref" errors into
ENOENT (since something like EISDIR may not be meaningful at
all to a database backend). However other callers of
refs_read_raw_ref() may actually care about the distinction;
putting this into resolve_ref() is the minimal fix for now.
The new tests in t1401 use git-symbolic-ref, which is the
most direct way to check the resolution by itself.
Interestingly we actually had a test that setup this case
already, but we only used it to verify that the funny state
could be overwritten, not that it could be resolved.
We also add a new test in t3200, as "branch -m" was the
original motivation for looking into this. What happens is
this:
0. HEAD is pointing to branch "a"
1. The user asks to rename "a" to "a/b".
2. We create "a/b" and delete "a".
3. We then try to update any worktree HEADs that point to
the renamed ref (including the main repo HEAD). To do
that, we have to resolve each HEAD. But now our HEAD is
pointing at "a", and we get EISDIR due to the loose
"a/b". As a result, we think there is no HEAD, and we
do not update it. It now points to the bogus "a".
Interestingly this case used to work, but only accidentally.
Before 31824d180d (branch: fix branch renaming not updating
HEADs correctly, 2017-08-24), we'd update any HEAD which we
couldn't resolve. That was wrong, but it papered over the
fact that we were incorrectly failing to resolve HEAD.
So while the bug demonstrated by the git-symbolic-ref is
quite old, the regression to "branch -m" is recent.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
