From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:24:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin remote rm: remove symbolic refs, too
Message-ID: <7vlk4sp54b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803082339060.3975@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> "git remote add" can add a symbolic ref "HEAD", and "rm" should delete
> it, too.
>
> Noticed by Teemu Likonen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  builtin-remote.c  |    5 +++++
>  t/t5505-remote.sh |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin-remote.c b/builtin-remote.c
> index aa90cc9..f7653b6 100644
> --- a/builtin-remote.c
> +++ b/builtin-remote.c
> @@ -267,6 +267,11 @@ static int add_branch_for_removal(const char *refname,
>  
>  	if (!prefixcmp(refname, branches->prefix)) {
>  		struct path_list_item *item;
> +
> +		/* make sure that symrefs are deleted */
> +		if (flags & REF_ISSYMREF)
> +			return unlink(git_path(refname));
> +

Heh, doing this in C is much easier and simpler ;-)