create_symref: use existing ref-lock code

The create_symref() function predates the existence of
"struct lock_file", let alone the more recent "struct
ref_lock". Instead, it just does its own manual dot-locking.
Besides being more code, this has a few downsides:

 - if git is interrupted while holding the lock, we don't
   clean up the lockfile

 - we don't do the usual directory/filename conflict check.
   So you can sometimes create a symref "refs/heads/foo/bar",
   even if "refs/heads/foo" exists (namely, if the refs are
   packed and we do not hit the d/f conflict in the
   filesystem).

This patch refactors create_symref() to use the "struct
ref_lock" interface, which handles both of these things.
There are a few bonus cleanups that come along with it:

 - we leaked ref_path in some error cases

 - the symref contents were stored in a fixed-size buffer,
   putting an artificial (albeit large) limitation on the
   length of the refname. We now write through fprintf, and
   handle refnames of any size.

 - we called adjust_shared_perm only after the file was
   renamed into place, creating a potential race with
   readers in a shared repository. The lockfile code now
   handles this when creating the lockfile, making it
   atomic.

 - the legacy prefer_symlink_refs path did not do any
   locking at all. Admittedly, it is not atomic from a
   reader's perspective (as it unlinks and re-creates the
   symlink to overwrite), but at least it cannot conflict
   with other writers now.

 - the result of this patch is hopefully more readable. It
   eliminates three goto labels. Two were for error checking
   that is now simplified, and the third was to reach shared
   code that has been pulled into its own function.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
index 1f0dff3a0b..5db876c6a1 100755
--- a/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
+++ b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
@@ -114,4 +114,12 @@ test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref writes reflog entry' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref does not create ref d/f conflicts' '
+	git checkout -b df &&
+	test_commit df &&
+	test_must_fail git symbolic-ref refs/heads/df/conflict refs/heads/df &&
+	git pack-refs --all --prune &&
+	test_must_fail git symbolic-ref refs/heads/df/conflict refs/heads/df
+'
+
 test_done