[PATCH v3] branch: segfault fixes and validation

From

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>

Date

Feb 23, 2013, 12:22 UTC

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<1361622147-20921-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

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Reported-by: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
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 On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
 > Instead of asking "Is it detached?", perhaps we can say something
 > like "You told me to set the upstream of HEAD to branch X, but " in
 > front?  At least, that will be a better explanation for the reason
 > why the operation is failing.

 Fixed.

 > What you can do is to have a single helper function that can explain
 > why branch_get() returned NULL (or extend branch_get() to serve that
 > purpose as well); then you do not have to duplicate the logic twice
 > on the caller's side (and there may be other callers that want to do
 > the same).

 The explanation mentions about the failed operation, which makes a
 helper less useful. We could still do the helper, but it may lead to
 i18n legos. So no helper in this version.

 > The existing test might be wrong, by the way.  Your HEAD may point
 > at a branch Y but you may not have any commit on it yet, and you may
 > want to allow setting the upstream of that to-be-born branch to
 > another branch X with "branch --set-upstream-to=X [Y|HEAD]".

 It sounds complicated. I think we can revisit it when a user actually
 complains about it.

 builtin/branch.c  | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 t/t3200-branch.sh | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index 6371bf9..00d17d2 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -889,6 +889,17 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	} else if (new_upstream) {
 		struct branch *branch = branch_get(argv[0]);
 
+		if (argc > 1)
+			die(_("too many branches to set new upstream"));
+
+		if (!branch) {
+			if (!argc || !strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
+				die(_("could not set upstream of HEAD to %s when "
+				      "it does not point to any branch."),
+				    new_upstream);
+			die(_("no such branch '%s'"), argv[0]);
+		}
+
 		if (!ref_exists(branch->refname))
 			die(_("branch '%s' does not exist"), branch->name);
 
@@ -901,6 +912,16 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		struct branch *branch = branch_get(argv[0]);
 		struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 
+		if (argc > 1)
+			die(_("too many branches to unset upstream"));
+
+		if (!branch) {
+			if (!argc || !strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
+				die(_("could not unset upstream of HEAD when "
+				      "it does not point to any branch."));
+			die(_("no such branch '%s'"), argv[0]);
+		}
+
 		if (!branch_has_merge_config(branch)) {
 			die(_("Branch '%s' has no upstream information"), branch->name);
 		}
@@ -916,6 +937,12 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		int branch_existed = 0, remote_tracking = 0;
 		struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 
+		if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
+			die(_("it does not make sense to create 'HEAD' manually"));
+
+		if (!branch)
+			die(_("no such branch '%s'"), argv[0]);
+
 		if (kinds != REF_LOCAL_BRANCH)
 			die(_("-a and -r options to 'git branch' do not make sense with a branch name"));
 
diff --git a/t/t3200-branch.sh b/t/t3200-branch.sh
index f3e0e4a..12f1e4a 100755
--- a/t/t3200-branch.sh
+++ b/t/t3200-branch.sh
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ test_expect_success \
     'git branch a/b/c should create a branch' \
     'git branch a/b/c && test_path_is_file .git/refs/heads/a/b/c'
 
+test_expect_success \
+    'git branch HEAD should fail' \
+    'test_must_fail git branch HEAD'
+
 cat >expect <<EOF
 $_z40 $HEAD $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> 1117150200 +0000	branch: Created from master
 EOF
@@ -388,6 +392,14 @@ test_expect_success \
     'git tag foobar &&
      test_must_fail git branch --track my11 foobar'
 
+test_expect_success '--set-upstream-to fails on multiple branches' \
+    'test_must_fail git branch --set-upstream-to master a b c'
+
+test_expect_success '--set-upstream-to fails on detached HEAD' \
+    'git checkout HEAD^{} &&
+     test_must_fail git branch --set-upstream-to master &&
+     git checkout -'
+
 test_expect_success 'use --set-upstream-to modify HEAD' \
     'test_config branch.master.remote foo &&
      test_config branch.master.merge foo &&
@@ -417,6 +429,15 @@ test_expect_success 'test --unset-upstream on HEAD' \
      test_must_fail git branch --unset-upstream
 '
 
+test_expect_success '--unset-upstream should fail on multiple branches' \
+    'test_must_fail git branch --unset-upstream a b c'
+
+test_expect_success '--unset-upstream should fail on detached HEAD' \
+    'git checkout HEAD^{} &&
+     test_must_fail git branch --unset-upstream &&
+     git checkout -
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'test --unset-upstream on a particular branch' \
     'git branch my15
      git branch --set-upstream-to master my14 &&

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1.8.1.2.536.gf441e6d