From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> When creating a reference transaction update, we can provide the old/new oid/target for the update. We have checks in place to ensure that for each old/new, either oid or target is set and not both. In the reftable backend, when dealing with updates without the `REF_NO_DEREF` flag, we don't selectively propagate data as needed. Since there are no active users of the path, this is not caught. As we want to introduce the 'symref-update' command in the upcoming commit, which would use this flow, correct it. Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> --- refs/reftable-backend.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/refs/reftable-backend.c b/refs/reftable-backend.c index bd89ce8d76..fee7a9904b 100644 --- a/refs/reftable-backend.c +++ b/refs/reftable-backend.c @@ -895,8 +895,9 @@ static int reftable_be_transaction_prepare(struct ref_store *ref_store, */ new_update = ref_transaction_add_update( transaction, referent.buf, new_flags, - &u->new_oid, &u->old_oid, u->new_target, - u->old_target, u->msg); + u->new_target ? NULL : &u->new_oid, + u->old_target ? NULL : &u->old_oid, + u->new_target, u->old_target, u->msg); new_update->parent_update = u; -- 2.43.GIT