It is quite possible for, say, a remote HEAD to become broken, e.g. when the default branch was renamed. We should still be able to pack our objects when such a thing happens; simply ignore broken symrefs (because they cannot matter for the packing process anyway). This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/423 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- reachable.c | 8 +++++++- t/t6500-gc.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/reachable.c b/reachable.c index 9cff25b..43616d4 100644 --- a/reachable.c +++ b/reachable.c @@ -25,9 +25,15 @@ static void update_progress(struct connectivity_progress *cp) static int add_one_ref(const char *path, const struct object_id *oid, int flag, void *cb_data) { - struct object *object = parse_object_or_die(oid->hash, path); struct rev_info *revs = (struct rev_info *)cb_data; + struct object *object; + if ((flag & REF_ISSYMREF) && (flag & REF_ISBROKEN)) { + warning("symbolic ref is dangling: %s", path); + return 0; + } + + object = parse_object_or_die(oid->hash, path); add_pending_object(revs, object, ""); return 0; diff --git a/t/t6500-gc.sh b/t/t6500-gc.sh index 9a3a285..5d7d414 100755 --- a/t/t6500-gc.sh +++ b/t/t6500-gc.sh @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ test_expect_success 'gc -h with invalid configuration' ' test_i18ngrep "[Uu]sage" broken/usage ' -test_expect_failure 'gc removes broken refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD' ' +test_expect_success 'gc is not aborted due to a stale symref' ' git init remote && ( cd remote && -- 2.6.1.windows.1 -- 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