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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-06-05 22:17:04 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-06-05 22:17:04 -0700 |
commit | c17b229454ac3f5d20fd0cff3a663b03c13cb38e (patch) | |
tree | f6b58684601a2da3bc6cf802ce764f072dd5c932 /Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt | |
parent | builtin/checkout: learn -B (diff) | |
download | tgif-c17b229454ac3f5d20fd0cff3a663b03c13cb38e.tar.xz |
checkout -b <name>: correctly detect existing branch
When create a new branch, we fed "refs/heads/<proposed name>" as a string
to get_sha1() and expected it to fail when a branch already exists.
The right way to check if a ref exists is to check with resolve_ref().
A naïve solution that might appear attractive but does not work is to
forbid slashes in get_describe_name() but that will not work. A describe
name is is in the form of "ANYTHING-g<short sha1>", and that ANYTHING part
comes from a original tag name used in the repository the user ran the
describe command. A sick user could have a confusing hierarchical tag
whose name is "refs/heads/foobar" (stored as refs/tags/refs/heads/foobar")
to generate a describe name "refs/heads/foobar-6-g02ac983", and we should
be able to use that name to refer to the object whose name is 02ac983.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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