From f8fb971eace6ed6fb0f350ade8af6fdd3599272d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:00:52 -0800 Subject: fetch: ignore wildcarded refspecs that update local symbolic refs In a repository cloned from somewhere else, you typically have a symbolic ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD pointing at the 'master' remote-tracking ref that is next to it. When fetching into such a repository with "git fetch --mirror" from another repository that was similarly cloned, the implied wildcard refspec refs/*:refs/* will end up asking to update refs/remotes/origin/HEAD with the object at refs/remotes/origin/HEAD at the remote side, while asking to update refs/remotes/origin/master the same way. Depending on the order the two updates happen, the latter one would find that the value of the ref before it is updated has changed from what the code expects. When the user asks to update the underlying ref via the symbolic ref explicitly without using a wildcard refspec, e.g. "git fetch $there refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/HEAD", we should still let him do so, but when expanding wildcard refs, it will result in a more intuitive outcome if we simply ignore local symbolic refs. As the purpose of the symbolic ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD is to follow the ref it points at (e.g. refs/remotes/origin/master), its value would change when the underlying ref is updated. Earlier commit da3efdb (receive-pack: detect aliased updates which can occur with symrefs, 2010-04-19) fixed a similar issue for "git push". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- remote.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'remote.c') diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c index 04fd9ea4bd..a72748ce8e 100644 --- a/remote.c +++ b/remote.c @@ -1370,6 +1370,16 @@ int branch_merge_matches(struct branch *branch, return refname_match(branch->merge[i]->src, refname, ref_fetch_rules); } +static int ignore_symref_update(const char *refname) +{ + unsigned char sha1[20]; + int flag; + + if (!resolve_ref_unsafe(refname, sha1, 0, &flag)) + return 0; /* non-existing refs are OK */ + return (flag & REF_ISSYMREF); +} + static struct ref *get_expanded_map(const struct ref *remote_refs, const struct refspec *refspec) { @@ -1383,7 +1393,8 @@ static struct ref *get_expanded_map(const struct ref *remote_refs, if (strchr(ref->name, '^')) continue; /* a dereference item */ if (match_name_with_pattern(refspec->src, ref->name, - refspec->dst, &expn_name)) { + refspec->dst, &expn_name) && + !ignore_symref_update(expn_name)) { struct ref *cpy = copy_ref(ref); cpy->peer_ref = alloc_ref(expn_name); -- cgit v1.2.1