[PATCH 0/2] Fix a bug with update-ref "verify" and no oldvalue

Ever since the --stdin option was added to "git update-ref" in

    c750ba9519 update-ref: support multiple simultaneous updates (2013-09-09)

the "verify" command has been broken. If no <oldvalue> is specified, the documentation says that the "verify" command will verify that the reference doesn't currently exist. But in fact, it unconditionally *deletes* the reference (!)

Hopefully this is not a common usage idiom, but this is nonetheless a serious bug.

Add some tests for this and related functionality, then fix the bug.

These patches are also available from my GitHub repository [1] as branch "update-ref-verify-fix-v1".

This fix applies to "maint", for which I think it is appropriate. It also merges through to "master" with no conflicts, though it conflicts trivially with "pu".

[1] https://github.com/mhagger/git

Michael Haggerty (2):
  t1400: add some more tests of "update-ref --stdin"'s verify command
  update-ref: fix "verify" command with missing <oldvalue>

 builtin/update-ref.c  | 14 +++-----
 t/t1400-update-ref.sh | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)