It's unlikely that we would fail to create or update a
symbolic ref (especially HEAD), but if we do, we should
notice and complain. Note that there's no need to give more
details in our error message; create_symref will already
have done so.
While we're here, let's also fix a minor memory leak in
clone.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
---
This patch could go to maint. I don't know if it's worth the trouble. I
was unable to figure out a way to trigger this reliably (hence no
tests). The two ways I considered were:
- "chmod -w .git", but it results in a die() already
- the bug I'm fixing in 2/2; but we don't want to rely on that in our
test suite, since I'm about to fix it. :-/
builtin/checkout.c | 3 ++-
builtin/clone.c | 11 +++++++----
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index e8110a9..5af84a3 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -661,7 +661,8 @@ static void update_refs_for_switch(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
describe_detached_head(_("HEAD is now at"), new->commit);
}
} else if (new->path) { /* Switch branches. */
- create_symref("HEAD", new->path, msg.buf);
+ if (create_symref("HEAD", new->path, msg.buf) < 0)
+ die("unable to update HEAD");
if (!opts->quiet) {
if (old->path && !strcmp(new->path, old->path)) {
if (opts->new_branch_force)
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index a0b3cd9..a7c8def 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -636,9 +636,11 @@ static void update_remote_refs(const struct ref *refs,
struct strbuf head_ref = STRBUF_INIT;
strbuf_addstr(&head_ref, branch_top);
strbuf_addstr(&head_ref, "HEAD");
- create_symref(head_ref.buf,
- remote_head_points_at->peer_ref->name,
- msg);
+ if (create_symref(head_ref.buf,
+ remote_head_points_at->peer_ref->name,
+ msg) < 0)
+ die("unable to update %s", head_ref.buf);
+ strbuf_release(&head_ref);
}
}
@@ -648,7 +650,8 @@ static void update_head(const struct ref *our, const struct ref *remote,
const char *head;
if (our && skip_prefix(our->name, "refs/heads/", &head)) {
/* Local default branch link */
- create_symref("HEAD", our->name, NULL);
+ if (create_symref("HEAD", our->name, NULL) < 0)
+ die("unable to update HEAD");
if (!option_bare) {
update_ref(msg, "HEAD", our->old_oid.hash, NULL, 0,
UPDATE_REFS_DIE_ON_ERR);
--
2.7.0.368.g04bc9ee
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