update-ref: allow --no-deref with --stdin

If passed both --no-deref and --stdin, update-ref would error out with a
general usage message that did not at all suggest these options were
incompatible.  The manpage for update-ref did suggest through its
synopsis line that --no-deref and --stdin were incompatible, but it sadly
also incorrectly suggested that -d and --no-deref were incompatible.  So
the help around the --no-deref option is buggy in a few ways.

The --stdin option did provide a different mechanism for avoiding
dereferencing symbolic-refs: adding a line reading
  option no-deref
before every other directive in the input.  (Technically, if the user
wants to do the extra work of first determining which refs they want to
update or delete are symbolic, then they only need to put the extra
"option no-deref" lines before the updates of those refs.  But in some
cases, that's more work than just adding the "option no-deref" before
every other directive.)

It's easier to allow the user to just pass --no-deref along with --stdin
in order to tell update-ref that the user doesn't want any symbolic ref
to be dereferenced.  It also makes the update-ref documentation simpler.
Implement that, and update the documentation to match.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/update-ref.c b/builtin/update-ref.c
index 54fac01f21..2d8f7f0578 100644
--- a/builtin/update-ref.c
+++ b/builtin/update-ref.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ static const char * const git_update_ref_usage[] = {
 
 static char line_termination = '\n';
 static unsigned int update_flags;
+static unsigned int default_flags;
 static unsigned create_reflog_flag;
 static const char *msg;
 
@@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ static const char *parse_cmd_update(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
 				   msg, &err))
 		die("%s", err.buf);
 
-	update_flags = 0;
+	update_flags = default_flags;
 	free(refname);
 	strbuf_release(&err);
 
@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ static const char *parse_cmd_create(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
 				   msg, &err))
 		die("%s", err.buf);
 
-	update_flags = 0;
+	update_flags = default_flags;
 	free(refname);
 	strbuf_release(&err);
 
@@ -273,7 +274,7 @@ static const char *parse_cmd_delete(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
 				   update_flags, msg, &err))
 		die("%s", err.buf);
 
-	update_flags = 0;
+	update_flags = default_flags;
 	free(refname);
 	strbuf_release(&err);
 
@@ -302,7 +303,7 @@ static const char *parse_cmd_verify(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
 				   update_flags, &err))
 		die("%s", err.buf);
 
-	update_flags = 0;
+	update_flags = default_flags;
 	free(refname);
 	strbuf_release(&err);
 
@@ -357,7 +358,6 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	const char *refname, *oldval;
 	struct object_id oid, oldoid;
 	int delete = 0, no_deref = 0, read_stdin = 0, end_null = 0;
-	unsigned int flags = 0;
 	int create_reflog = 0;
 	struct option options[] = {
 		OPT_STRING( 'm', NULL, &msg, N_("reason"), N_("reason of the update")),
@@ -378,6 +378,11 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	create_reflog_flag = create_reflog ? REF_FORCE_CREATE_REFLOG : 0;
 
+	if (no_deref) {
+		default_flags = REF_NO_DEREF;
+		update_flags = default_flags;
+	}
+
 	if (read_stdin) {
 		struct strbuf err = STRBUF_INIT;
 		struct ref_transaction *transaction;
@@ -385,7 +390,7 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		transaction = ref_transaction_begin(&err);
 		if (!transaction)
 			die("%s", err.buf);
-		if (delete || no_deref || argc > 0)
+		if (delete || argc > 0)
 			usage_with_options(git_update_ref_usage, options);
 		if (end_null)
 			line_termination = '\0';
@@ -427,8 +432,6 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			die("%s: not a valid old SHA1", oldval);
 	}
 
-	if (no_deref)
-		flags = REF_NO_DEREF;
 	if (delete)
 		/*
 		 * For purposes of backwards compatibility, we treat
@@ -436,9 +439,9 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		 */
 		return delete_ref(msg, refname,
 				  (oldval && !is_null_oid(&oldoid)) ? &oldoid : NULL,
-				  flags);
+				  default_flags);
 	else
 		return update_ref(msg, refname, &oid, oldval ? &oldoid : NULL,
-				  flags | create_reflog_flag,
+				  default_flags | create_reflog_flag,
 				  UPDATE_REFS_DIE_ON_ERR);
 }