tmp-objdir: disable ref updates when replacing the primary odb

When creating a subprocess with a temporary ODB, we set the
GIT_QUARANTINE_ENVIRONMENT env var to tell child Git processes not
to update refs, since the tmp-objdir may go away.

Introduce a similar mechanism for in-process temporary ODBs when
we call tmp_objdir_replace_primary_odb. Now both mechanisms set
the disable_ref_updates flag on the odb, which is queried by
the ref_transaction_prepare function.

Peff's test case [1] was invoking ref updates via the cachetextconv
setting. That particular code silently does nothing when a ref
update is forbidden. See the call to notes_cache_put in
fill_textconv where errors are ignored.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/YVOn3hDsb5pnxR53@coredump.intra.peff.net/

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 8b9f7c3a80..b49864fc1a 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -2126,7 +2126,7 @@ int ref_transaction_prepare(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
 		break;
 	}
 
-	if (getenv(GIT_QUARANTINE_ENVIRONMENT)) {
+	if (refs->repo->objects->odb->disable_ref_updates) {
 		strbuf_addstr(err,
 			      _("ref updates forbidden inside quarantine environment"));
 		return -1;