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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2014-01-15 05:46:13 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-01-15 12:37:24 -0800
commit4c224081118ac27ea62cb249bd95e66cba652483 (patch)
tree8bc6529f40a82446894188c31b385b975e011e5e /fetch-pack.c
parent2f93541d88fadd1ff5307d81c2c8921ee3eea058 (diff)
downloadgit-4c224081118ac27ea62cb249bd95e66cba652483.tar.gz
fetch-pack: do not filter out one-level refsjk/allow-fetch-onelevel-refname
Currently fetching a one-level ref like "refs/foo" does not work consistently. The outer "git fetch" program filters the list of refs, checking each against check_refname_format. Then it feeds the result to do_fetch_pack to actually negotiate the haves/wants and get the pack. The fetch-pack code does its own filter, and it behaves differently. The fetch-pack filter looks for refs in "refs/", and then feeds everything _after_ the slash (i.e., just "foo") into check_refname_format. But check_refname_format is not designed to look at a partial refname. It complains that the ref has only one component, thinking it is at the root (i.e., alongside "HEAD"), when in reality we just fed it a partial refname. As a result, we omit a ref like "refs/foo" from the pack request, even though "git fetch" then tries to store the resulting ref. If we happen to get the object anyway (e.g., because the ref is contained in another ref we are fetching), then the fetch succeeds. But if it is a unique object, we fail when trying to update "refs/foo". We can fix this by just passing the whole refname into check_refname_format; we know the part we were omitting is "refs/", which is acceptable in a refname. This at least makes the checks consistent with each other. This problem happens most commonly with "refs/stash", which is the only one-level ref in wide use. However, our test does not use "refs/stash", as we may later want to restrict it specifically (not because it is one-level, but because of the semantics of stashes). We may also want to do away with the multiple levels of filtering (which can cause problems when they are out of sync), or even forbid one-level refs entirely. However, those decisions can come later; this fixes the most immediate problem, which is the mismatch between the two. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fetch-pack.c')
-rw-r--r--fetch-pack.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fetch-pack.c b/fetch-pack.c
index aff4f5abab..4637eb1328 100644
--- a/fetch-pack.c
+++ b/fetch-pack.c
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static void filter_refs(struct fetch_pack_args *args,
next = ref->next;
if (!memcmp(ref->name, "refs/", 5) &&
- check_refname_format(ref->name + 5, 0))
+ check_refname_format(ref->name, 0))
; /* trash */
else {
while (i < nr_sought) {