On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 11:27:39AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I however notice that addition of /* to the tail is trying to be > careful by using strbuf_complete('/'), but prefixing with "refs/" > does not and we would end up with a double-slash if pattern begins > with a slash. The contract between the caller of this function (or > its original, which is for_each_glob_ref_in()) and the callee is > that prefix must not begin with '/', so it may be OK, but we might > want to add "if (*pattern == '/') BUG(...)" at the beginning. > > I dunno. In any case, that is totally outside the scope of this two > patch series. I do think it's a good idea to make future readers of the code aware of this contract, and adding a BUG assert does that quite well. Here is a patch that implements it. This applies of course on top of this patch series. -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] normalize_glob_ref: assert implicit contract of prefix normalize_glob_ref has an implicit contract of expecting 'prefix' to not start with a '/', otherwise the pattern would end up with a double-slash. Mark it as a BUG when the prefix argument of normalize_glob_ref starts with a '/' so that future callers will be aware of this contract. Signed-off-by: Kevin Daudt <me@xxxxxxxxx> --- refs.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c index e9ae659ae..6747981d1 100644 --- a/refs.c +++ b/refs.c @@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ int head_ref_namespaced(each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data) void normalize_glob_ref(struct strbuf *normalized_pattern, const char *prefix, const char *pattern, int flags) { + if (prefix && *prefix == '/') BUG("prefix cannot not start with '/'"); + if (!prefix && !starts_with(pattern, "refs/")) strbuf_addstr(normalized_pattern, "refs/"); else if (prefix) -- 2.15.0.rc2.57.g2f899857a9