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Re: [PATCH] symbolic ref: refuse non-ref targets in HEAD

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 29, 2009, 08:34 UTC
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<20090129083437.GA6297@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<20090129080145.GA777@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 03:01:45AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
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> > In addition, perhaps it may make sense to use test_create_repo to go one
> > level deeper before starting to play around, so that trash directory's
> > repository will prevent you from going any further up.
> 
> That sort of helps, but only by luck. Each test kills off one layer of
> repo. So the first one kills the test_create_repo, and the second one
> kills the trash directory. Adding another test would kill off the main
> repo. :) So you have to do something per-test. I'll do that in the
> re-roll.
It occurs to me you perhaps did mean to do something per-test, like:
  test_create_repo foo && (cd foo && do_the_actual_test)
That would work, too.
-Peff
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  1. symbolic ref: refuse non-ref targets in HEADJeff King, Jan 29, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 29, 2009
  3. Jeff KingJan 29, 2009
  4. 1/2 validate_headref: tighten ref-matching to just branchesJeff King, Jan 29, 2009
  5. 2/2 symbolic ref: refuse non-ref targets in HEADJeff King, Jan 29, 2009
  6. Jeff KingJan 29, 2009

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