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authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2007-11-29 01:02:53 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-11-30 14:59:43 -0800
commit28391a80a94d2b59d1d21f8264fe5dab91d77249 (patch)
treeecad6b60280162cff18197f5b069c6df6801a025 /receive-pack.c
parent346d203bc3931c33f2e40093ee9325ab0334b9fe (diff)
downloadgit-28391a80a94d2b59d1d21f8264fe5dab91d77249.tar.gz
receive-pack: allow deletion of corrupt refs
Occasionally, in some setups (*cough* forks on repo.or.cz *cough*) some refs go stale, e.g. when the forkee rebased and lost some objects needed by the fork. The quick & dirty way to deal with those refs is to delete them and push them again. However, git-push first would first fetch the current commit name for the ref, would receive a null sha1 since the ref does not point to a valid object, then tell receive-pack that it should delete the ref with this commit name. delete_ref() would be subsequently be called, and check that resolve_ref() (which does _not_ check for validity of the object) returns the same commit name. Which would fail. The proper fix is to avoid corrupting repositories, but in the meantime this is a good fix in any case. Incidentally, some instances of "cd .." in the test cases were fixed, so that subsequent test cases run in t/trash/ irrespective of the outcome of the previous test cases. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'receive-pack.c')
-rw-r--r--receive-pack.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/receive-pack.c b/receive-pack.c
index ed44b897f6..fba4cf8235 100644
--- a/receive-pack.c
+++ b/receive-pack.c
@@ -200,6 +200,10 @@ static const char *update(struct command *cmd)
}
if (is_null_sha1(new_sha1)) {
+ if (!parse_object(old_sha1)) {
+ warning ("Allowing deletion of corrupt ref.");
+ old_sha1 = NULL;
+ }
if (delete_ref(name, old_sha1)) {
error("failed to delete %s", name);
return "failed to delete";