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[PATCH v2 6/8] branch: restrict @-expansions when deleting

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 2, 2017, 08:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20170302082310.y24ex3ado4st7onw@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20170302082100.edaretznmlralswa@sigill.intra.peff.net>

We use strbuf_branchname() to expand the branch name from the command line, so you can delete the branch given by @{-1}, for example. However, we allow other nonsense like "@", and we do not respect our "-r" flag (so we may end up deleting an oddly-named local ref instead of a remote one).

We can fix this by passing the appropriate "allowed" flag to strbuf_branchname().

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 builtin/branch.c                      | 5 ++++-
 t/t3204-branch-name-interpretation.sh | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index cf0ece55d..291fe90de 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -191,17 +191,20 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds,
 	int ret = 0;
 	int remote_branch = 0;
 	struct strbuf bname = STRBUF_INIT;
+	unsigned allowed_interpret;
 
 	switch (kinds) {
 	case FILTER_REFS_REMOTES:
 		fmt = "refs/remotes/%s";
 		/* For subsequent UI messages */
 		remote_branch = 1;
+		allowed_interpret = INTERPRET_BRANCH_REMOTE;
 
 		force = 1;
 		break;
 	case FILTER_REFS_BRANCHES:
 		fmt = "refs/heads/%s";
+		allowed_interpret = INTERPRET_BRANCH_LOCAL;
 		break;
 	default:
 		die(_("cannot use -a with -d"));
@@ -216,7 +219,7 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds,
 		char *target = NULL;
 		int flags = 0;
 
-		strbuf_branchname(&bname, argv[i], 0);
+		strbuf_branchname(&bname, argv[i], allowed_interpret);
 		free(name);
 		name = mkpathdup(fmt, bname.buf);
 
diff --git a/t/t3204-branch-name-interpretation.sh b/t/t3204-branch-name-interpretation.sh
index e671a7a64..4f4af1fb4 100755
--- a/t/t3204-branch-name-interpretation.sh
+++ b/t/t3204-branch-name-interpretation.sh
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ test_expect_success 'delete branch via remote @{upstream}' '
 # Note that we create two oddly named local branches here. We want to make
 # sure that we do not accidentally delete either of them, even if
 # shorten_unambiguous_ref() tweaks the name to avoid ambiguity.
-test_expect_failure 'delete @{upstream} expansion matches -r option' '
+test_expect_success 'delete @{upstream} expansion matches -r option' '
 	git update-ref refs/remotes/origin/remote-del two &&
 	git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/remote-del &&
 	git update-ref refs/heads/origin/remote-del two &&
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ test_expect_failure 'delete @{upstream} expansion matches -r option' '
 	expect_branch refs/heads/remotes/origin/remote-del two
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'disallow deleting remote branch via @{-1}' '
+test_expect_success 'disallow deleting remote branch via @{-1}' '
 	git update-ref refs/remotes/origin/previous one &&
 
 	git checkout -b origin/previous two &&
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ test_expect_failure 'create branch named "@"' '
 	expect_branch refs/heads/@ one
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'delete branch named "@"' '
+test_expect_success 'delete branch named "@"' '
 	git update-ref refs/heads/@ two &&
 	git branch -D @ &&
 	expect_deleted refs/heads/@
-- 
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Message 7 of 10 in “fixing corner-cases with interpret_branch_name()”
  1. fixing corner-cases with interpret_branch_name()Jeff King, Mar 2, 2017
  2. 1/8 interpret_branch_name: move docstring to header fileJeff King, Mar 2, 2017
  3. 3/8 strbuf_branchname: add docstringJeff King, Mar 2, 2017
  4. 2/8 strbuf_branchname: drop return valueJeff King, Mar 2, 2017
  5. 4/8 interpret_branch_name: allow callers to restrict expansionsJeff King, Mar 2, 2017
  6. 5/8 t3204: test git-branch @-expansion corner casesJeff King, Mar 2, 2017
  7. 6/8 branch: restrict @-expansions when deletingJeff King, Mar 2, 2017
  8. 7/8 strbuf_check_ref_format(): expand only local branchesJeff King, Mar 2, 2017
  9. Jacob KellerMar 2, 2017
  10. 8/8 checkout: restrict @-expansions when finding branchJeff King, Mar 2, 2017

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