From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:08:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [topgit] tg update error
Message-ID: <20090214020848.GA9907@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy6w93hdb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 06:02:56PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > As it turns out, topgit is using refs/top-bases/ in HEAD,
> > leading us to re-loosen (at least temporarily) the
> > validate_headref check made in b229d18a. This patch does the
> > corresponding loosening for the symbolic-ref safety valve,
> > so that the two are in agreement once more.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> 
> Actually we should simply revert afe5d3d5 altogether with the above
> message, as it introduced a test that expects the tightened behaviour.

Is there any reason to throw away the "must be in refs/" safety valve,
though? That was the actual patch I started with and solved my problem,
and the "tighten to refs/heads/" bit came from discussion. That is, I
think having a safety valve in symbolic-ref that matches
validate_headref is orthogonal to how tightly validate_headref matches.

But yes, I obviously failed to run the test suite on the follow-up patch
I sent. The final test in t1401 would need to be reverted, as well.

-Peff