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Re: Make 'git fsck' complain about non-commit branches

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 16, 2008, 00:43 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
<alpine.LFD.1.00.0801151618300.2806@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> Since having non-commits in branches is a no-no, and just means you cannot 
> commit on them, let's make fsck tell you when a branch is bad.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I think all of the three patches (so far -- do you have more?) look sane from the Porcelain-plumbing combination point of view, but I wonder if we should make it more explicit that we are now moving in the direction that makes plumbing much more aware of the Porcelain convention.

So far, the plumbing level did not care much about the Porcelain convention, such as refs/heads and refs/remotes (you seem to have forgot) are about "branches" and must point at commit objects.

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> ---
>
>  builtin-fsck.c |   13 ++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin-fsck.c b/builtin-fsck.c
> index 8876d34..6fc9525 100644
> --- a/builtin-fsck.c
> +++ b/builtin-fsck.c
> @@ -555,20 +555,23 @@ static int fsck_handle_reflog(const char *logname, const unsigned char *sha1, in
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static int is_branch(const char *refname)
> +{
> +	return !strcmp(refname, "HEAD") || !prefixcmp(refname, "refs/heads/");
> +}
> +
>  static int fsck_handle_ref(const char *refname, const unsigned char *sha1, int flag, void *cb_data)
>  {
>  	struct object *obj;
>  
> -	obj = lookup_object(sha1);
> +	obj = parse_object(sha1);
>  	if (!obj) {
> -		if (has_sha1_file(sha1)) {
> -			default_refs++;
> -			return 0; /* it is in a pack */
> -		}
>  		error("%s: invalid sha1 pointer %s", refname, sha1_to_hex(sha1));
>  		/* We'll continue with the rest despite the error.. */
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> +	if (obj->type != OBJ_COMMIT && is_branch(refname))
> +		error("%s: not a commit", refname);
>  	default_refs++;
>  	obj->used = 1;
>  	mark_reachable(obj, REACHABLE);
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