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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2017-03-02 03:23:18 -0500
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-03-02 11:05:04 -0800
commitfd4692ff7040e690546ed139a419995e76a96196 (patch)
tree22b7d5f9415dd2a1d74f885d95af2e29608f9a88 /builtin
parentstrbuf_check_ref_format(): expand only local branches (diff)
downloadtgif-fd4692ff7040e690546ed139a419995e76a96196.tar.xz
checkout: restrict @-expansions when finding branch
When we parse "git checkout $NAME", we try to interpret $NAME as a local branch-name. If it is, then we point HEAD to that branch. Otherwise, we detach the HEAD at whatever commit $NAME points to. We do the interpretation by calling strbuf_branchname(), and then blindly sticking "refs/heads/" on the front. This leads to nonsense results when expansions like "@{upstream}" or "@" point to something besides a local branch. We end up with a local branch name like "refs/heads/origin/master" or "refs/heads/HEAD". Normally this has no user-visible effect because those branches don't exist, and so we fallback to feeding the result to get_sha1(), which resolves them correctly. But as the new test in t3204 shows, there are corner cases where the effect is observable, and we check out the wrong local branch rather than detaching to the correct one. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin')
-rw-r--r--builtin/checkout.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 711a923530..767ca9e18c 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static void setup_branch_path(struct branch_info *branch)
{
struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
- strbuf_branchname(&buf, branch->name, 0);
+ strbuf_branchname(&buf, branch->name, INTERPRET_BRANCH_LOCAL);
if (strcmp(buf.buf, branch->name))
branch->name = xstrdup(buf.buf);
strbuf_splice(&buf, 0, 0, "refs/heads/", 11);