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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-09-19 13:51:40 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-09-19 13:51:41 -0700
commitd6645312ff82245a8e9bc8187ad16c57456bff38 (patch)
treebcbef7c70559fa152cecd06a9242145ecb5c374f
parentMerge branch 'jc/submodule-anchor-git-dir' into maint (diff)
parentsymbolic-ref -d: do not allow removal of HEAD (diff)
downloadtgif-d6645312ff82245a8e9bc8187ad16c57456bff38.tar.xz
Merge branch 'jc/forbid-symbolic-ref-d-HEAD' into maint
"git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" happily removes the symbolic ref, but the resulting repository becomes an invalid one. Teach the command to forbid removal of HEAD. * jc/forbid-symbolic-ref-d-HEAD: symbolic-ref -d: do not allow removal of HEAD
-rw-r--r--builtin/symbolic-ref.c2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh21
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/symbolic-ref.c b/builtin/symbolic-ref.c
index 9c29a64e43..96eed94468 100644
--- a/builtin/symbolic-ref.c
+++ b/builtin/symbolic-ref.c
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
ret = check_symref(argv[0], 1, 0, 0);
if (ret)
die("Cannot delete %s, not a symbolic ref", argv[0]);
+ if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
+ die("deleting '%s' is not allowed", argv[0]);
return delete_ref(argv[0], NULL, REF_NODEREF);
}
diff --git a/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
index ca3fa406c3..eec3e90f9c 100755
--- a/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
+++ b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
@@ -33,18 +33,25 @@ test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref refuses bare sha1' '
'
reset_to_sane
-test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref deletes HEAD' '
- git symbolic-ref -d HEAD &&
+test_expect_success 'HEAD cannot be removed' '
+ test_must_fail git symbolic-ref -d HEAD
+'
+
+reset_to_sane
+
+test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref can be deleted' '
+ git symbolic-ref NOTHEAD refs/heads/foo &&
+ git symbolic-ref -d NOTHEAD &&
test_path_is_file .git/refs/heads/foo &&
- test_path_is_missing .git/HEAD
+ test_path_is_missing .git/NOTHEAD
'
reset_to_sane
-test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref deletes dangling HEAD' '
- git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/missing &&
- git symbolic-ref -d HEAD &&
+test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref can delete dangling symref' '
+ git symbolic-ref NOTHEAD refs/heads/missing &&
+ git symbolic-ref -d NOTHEAD &&
test_path_is_missing .git/refs/heads/missing &&
- test_path_is_missing .git/HEAD
+ test_path_is_missing .git/NOTHEAD
'
reset_to_sane