[PATCH v2 1/5] replace: forbid replacing an object with one of a different type

From

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Date

Aug 27, 2013, 19:48 UTC

Message-ID

<20130827194828.11172.73829.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

In-Reply-To

<20130827194022.11172.56453.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

To avoid mistakes, it is better to just forbid that though.

* Annotated tags contain the type of the tagged object.

* The tree/parent lines in commits must be a tree and commits, resp.

* The object types referred to by trees are specified in the 'mode'
  field:
    100644 and 100755    blob
    160000               commit
    040000               tree
  (these are the only valid modes)

* Blobs don't point at anything.

The doc will be updated in a later patch.

Acked-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 builtin/replace.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/builtin/replace.c b/builtin/replace.c
index 59d3115..9a94769 100644
--- a/builtin/replace.c
+++ b/builtin/replace.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static int replace_object(const char *object_ref, const char *replace_ref,
 			  int force)
 {
 	unsigned char object[20], prev[20], repl[20];
+	enum object_type obj_type, repl_type;
 	char ref[PATH_MAX];
 	struct ref_lock *lock;
 
@@ -100,6 +101,15 @@ static int replace_object(const char *object_ref, const char *replace_ref,
 	if (check_refname_format(ref, 0))
 		die("'%s' is not a valid ref name.", ref);
 
+	obj_type = sha1_object_info(object, NULL);
+	repl_type = sha1_object_info(repl, NULL);
+	if (obj_type != repl_type)
+		die("Objects must be of the same type.\n"
+		    "'%s' points to a replaced object of type '%s'\n"
+		    "while '%s' points to a replacement object of type '%s'.",
+		    object_ref, typename(obj_type),
+		    replace_ref, typename(repl_type));
+
 	if (read_ref(ref, prev))
 		hashclr(prev);
 	else if (!force)

-- 
1.8.4.rc1.26.gdd51ee9