Johannes Schindelin 28391a80a9 receive-pack: allow deletion of corrupt refs ...

Occasionally, in some setups (*cough* forks on repo.or.cz *cough*) some
refs go stale, e.g. when the forkee rebased and lost some objects needed
by the fork.  The quick & dirty way to deal with those refs is to delete
them and push them again.

However, git-push first would first fetch the current commit name for the
ref, would receive a null sha1 since the ref does not point to a valid
object, then tell receive-pack that it should delete the ref with this
commit name.  delete_ref() would be subsequently be called, and check that
resolve_ref() (which does _not_ check for validity of the object) returns
the same commit name.  Which would fail.

The proper fix is to avoid corrupting repositories, but in the meantime
this is a good fix in any case.

Incidentally, some instances of "cd .." in the test cases were fixed, so
that subsequent test cases run in t/trash/ irrespective of the outcome of
the previous test cases.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2007-11-30 14:59:43 -08:00

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