symbolic-ref: allow refs/<whatever> in HEAD Commit afe5d3d5 introduced a safety valve to symbolic-ref to disallow installing an invalid HEAD. It was accompanied by b229d18a, which changed validate_headref to require that HEAD contain a pointer to refs/heads/ instead of just refs/. Therefore, the safety valve also checked for refs/heads/. As it turns out, topgit is using refs/top-bases/ in HEAD, leading us to re-loosen (at least temporarily) the validate_headref check made in b229d18a. This patch does the corresponding loosening for the symbolic-ref safety valve, so that the two are in agreement once more. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c index cafc4eb..6ae6bcc 100644 --- a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c +++ b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ break; case 2: if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD") && - prefixcmp(argv[1], "refs/heads/")) - die("Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/heads/"); + prefixcmp(argv[1], "refs/")) + die("Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/"); create_symref(argv[0], argv[1], msg); break; default:
diff --git a/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh index 569f341..7fa5f5b 100755 --- a/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh +++ b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ ' 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`