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[PATCH v2 3/4] t5604: do not expect that HEAD can be a valid tagname

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 3, 2024, 02:32 UTC
Message-ID
<20241203023240.3852850-4-gitster@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To
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09116a1c (refs: loosen over-strict "format" check, 2011-11-16) introduced a test piece (originally in t5700) that expects to be able to create a tag named "HEAD" and then a local clone using the repository as its own reference works correctly. Later, another test piece started using this tag starting at acede2eb (t5700: document a failure of alternates to affect fetch, 2012-02-11).

But the breakage 09116a1c fixed was not specific to the tagname HEAD. It would have failed exactly the same way if the tag used were foo instead of HEAD.

Before forbidding "git tag" from creating "refs/tags/HEAD", update these tests to use 'foo', not 'HEAD', as the name of the test tag.

Note that the test piece that uses the tag learned the value of the tag in unnecessarily inefficient and convoluted way with for-each-ref. Just use "rev-parse" instead.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 t/t5604-clone-reference.sh | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t5604-clone-reference.sh b/t/t5604-clone-reference.sh
index 9b32db8478..5f5c650ff8 100755
--- a/t/t5604-clone-reference.sh
+++ b/t/t5604-clone-reference.sh
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ test_expect_success 'cloning with multiple references drops duplicates' '
 
 test_expect_success 'clone with reference from a tagged repository' '
 	(
-		cd A && git tag -a -m tagged HEAD
+		cd A && git tag -a -m tagged foo
 	) &&
 	git clone --reference=A A I
 '
@@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ test_expect_success 'fetch with incomplete alternates' '
 		git remote add J "file://$base_dir/J" &&
 		GIT_TRACE_PACKET=$U.K git fetch J
 	) &&
-	main_object=$(cd A && git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname)" refs/heads/main) &&
+	main_object=$(git -C A rev-parse --verify refs/heads/main) &&
 	test -s "$U.K" &&
 	! grep " want $main_object" "$U.K" &&
-	tag_object=$(cd A && git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname)" refs/tags/HEAD) &&
+	tag_object=$(git -C A rev-parse --verify refs/tags/foo) &&
 	! grep " want $tag_object" "$U.K"
 '
 
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