summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--reachable.c8
-rwxr-xr-xt/t6500-gc.sh2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/reachable.c b/reachable.c
index 69fa6851da..4cfd0dec70 100644
--- a/reachable.c
+++ b/reachable.c
@@ -24,9 +24,15 @@ static void update_progress(struct connectivity_progress *cp)
static int add_one_ref(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1, int flag, void *cb_data)
{
- struct object *object = parse_object_or_die(sha1, path);
struct rev_info *revs = (struct rev_info *)cb_data;
+ struct object *object;
+ if ((flag & REF_ISSYMREF) && (flag & REF_ISBROKEN)) {
+ warning("symbolic ref is dangling: %s", path);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ object = parse_object_or_die(sha1, path);
add_pending_object(revs, object, "");
return 0;
diff --git a/t/t6500-gc.sh b/t/t6500-gc.sh
index ed22dcc76f..5d7d414617 100755
--- a/t/t6500-gc.sh
+++ b/t/t6500-gc.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ test_expect_success 'gc -h with invalid configuration' '
test_i18ngrep "[Uu]sage" broken/usage
'
-test_expect_failure 'gc is not aborted due to a stale symref' '
+test_expect_success 'gc is not aborted due to a stale symref' '
git init remote &&
(
cd remote &&