Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Remove the error "branch '%s' does not point at a commit" in >> apppend_ref() which reports branch refs which do not point to >> commits. Also remove the error "some refs could not be read" in >> print_ref_list() which is triggered as a consequence of the first >> error. >> >> This seems to be the wrong codepath whose purpose is not to diagnose >> and report a repository corruption. If we care about such a repository >> corruption, we should report it from fsck instead. > > (We actually already report it from fsck indeed) > >> This also helps in a smooth port of branch.c to use ref-filter APIs >> over the following patches. On the other hand, ref-filter ignores refs >> which do not point at commits silently. > > Seems much better. Thanks, Yes, it seems that I can just replace 5/8 with this and the remainder can stay as they are. While I was trying to address your "actually already report", I spotted a typo and then found that the early part of the second paragraph is a bit hard, so here is what I ended up with. branch: drop non-commit error reporting Remove the error "branch '%s' does not point at a commit" in append_ref(), which reports branch refs which do not point to commits. Also remove the error "some refs could not be read" in print_ref_list() which is triggered as a consequence of the first error. The purpose of these codepaths is not to diagnose and report a repository corruption. If we care about such a corruption, we should report it from fsck instead, which we already do. This also helps in a smooth port of branch.c to use ref-filter APIs over the following patches. On the other hand, ref-filter ignores refs which do not point at commits silently. Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html