This series changes the handling of CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and REVERT_HEAD to use the refs API, as a preliminary refactor for reftable. No functional changes. Han-Wen Nienhuys (4): refs: make refs_ref_exists public sequencer: treat CHERRY_PICK_HEAD as a pseudo ref builtin/commit: suggest update-ref for pseudoref removal sequencer: treat REVERT_HEAD as a pseudo ref builtin/commit.c | 26 +++++++++++----------- builtin/merge.c | 2 +- path.c | 2 -- path.h | 9 ++++---- refs.c | 2 +- refs.h | 2 ++ sequencer.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- wt-status.c | 6 +++--- 8 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) base-commit: 675a4aaf3b226c0089108221b96559e0baae5de9 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-706%2Fhanwen%2Fstray-pseudorefs-v3 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-706/hanwen/stray-pseudorefs-v3 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/706 Range-diff vs v2: 1: a8467a0d66 = 1: bfea176682 refs: make refs_ref_exists public 2: 2797e98446 = 2: 5ff5d2c663 sequencer: treat CHERRY_PICK_HEAD as a pseudo ref 3: 2681638651 ! 3: 8aacde69c8 builtin/commit: suggest update-ref for pseudoref removal @@ Commit message ## builtin/commit.c ## @@ builtin/commit.c: static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix, - struct ident_split ci, ai; - - if (whence != FROM_COMMIT) { -+ const char *pseudoref = (whence == FROM_MERGE) ? -+ "MERGE_HEAD" : -+ "CHERRY_PICK_HEAD"; -+ const char *what = (whence == FROM_MERGE) ? -+ "merge" : -+ "cherry-pick"; -+ if (cleanup_mode == COMMIT_MSG_CLEANUP_SCISSORS && !merge_contains_scissors) wt_status_add_cut_line(s->fp); @@ builtin/commit.c: static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const cha - "If this is not correct, please remove the file\n" - " %s\n" - "and try again.\n"), -- whence == FROM_MERGE ? -- git_path_merge_head(the_repository) : -- git_path_cherry_pick_head(the_repository)); + status_printf_ln( + s, GIT_COLOR_NORMAL, -+ _("\n" -+ "It looks like you may be committing a %s.\n" -+ "If this is not correct, please remove %s with\n" -+ " git update-ref -d %s\n" -+ "and try again.\n"), -+ what, pseudoref, pseudoref); + whence == FROM_MERGE ? +- git_path_merge_head(the_repository) : +- git_path_cherry_pick_head(the_repository)); ++ _("\n" ++ "It looks like you may be committing a merge.\n" ++ "If this is not correct, please run\n" ++ " git update-ref -d MERGE_HEAD\n" ++ "and try again.\n") : ++ _("\n" ++ "It looks like you may be committing a cherry-pick.\n" ++ "If this is not correct, please run\n" ++ " git update-ref -d CHERRY_PICK_HEAD\n" ++ "and try again.\n")); } fprintf(s->fp, "\n"); 4: 9dcc10f807 = 4: 9ba0136645 sequencer: treat REVERT_HEAD as a pseudo ref -- gitgitgadget