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| -rw-r--r-- | builtin-symbolic-ref.c | 3 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh | 41 |
2 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c index bfc78bb3f6..cafc4eba7c 100644 --- a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c +++ b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) check_symref(argv[0], quiet); break; case 2: + if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD") && + prefixcmp(argv[1], "refs/heads/")) + die("Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/heads/"); create_symref(argv[0], argv[1], msg); break; default: diff --git a/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000000..569f34177d --- /dev/null +++ b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +test_description='basic symbolic-ref tests' +. ./test-lib.sh + +# If the tests munging HEAD fail, they can break detection of +# the git repo, meaning that further tests will operate on +# the surrounding git repo instead of the trash directory. +reset_to_sane() { + echo ref: refs/heads/foo >.git/HEAD +} + +test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref writes HEAD' ' + git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/foo && + echo ref: refs/heads/foo >expect && + test_cmp expect .git/HEAD +' + +test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref reads HEAD' ' + echo refs/heads/foo >expect && + git symbolic-ref HEAD >actual && + test_cmp expect actual +' + +test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref refuses non-ref for HEAD' ' + test_must_fail git symbolic-ref HEAD foo +' +reset_to_sane + +test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref refuses non-branch for HEAD' ' + test_must_fail git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/foo +' +reset_to_sane + +test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref refuses bare sha1' ' + echo content >file && git add file && git commit -m one + test_must_fail git symbolic-ref HEAD `git rev-parse HEAD` +' +reset_to_sane + +test_done |