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Re: fetch refspec foo/* matches foo*

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 27, 2008, 00:18 UTC
Message-ID
<7vvdysb2na.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<20080726082405.GA10104@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 02:02:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> BTW, has anybody taken a look at this one?
>> 
>>   Subject: BUG: fetch incorrect interpretation of globing patterns in refspecs
>>   Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:07:21 +0200
>>   Message-ID: <71295b5a0807240007k246973abj1897895d0d67bb6c@mail.gmail.com>
>> 
>> If not, I think I probably need to take a look at this, reproducing and
>> possibly fixing, before applying non-fix patches.
>
> I have been meaning to look at it for days, so I finally took a peek.  I
> was able to reproduce the problem easily. I think it is (almost) as
> simple as the patch below. In the refspec parsing, we already require
> globs to come after '/', so this is the analagous check during match.
>
> Unfortunately, this breaks t1020 (something about failing to clone HEAD

Your patch expects that the parsed refspec->{src,dst} omit the terminating slash, which is in line with what parse_refspec_internal() in remote.c does. The problem is that builtin-clone.c uses a refspec that is incompatible from that assumption. The static "tag_refspec" variable defined in remote.c has the same problem. These two have trailing slash e.g. "refs/heads/", "refs/tags/", that should be dropped for your updated check to work.

The attached patch, that includes your one-liner change, makes all tests pass.

I have a nagging suspicion that it might be a simpler and cleaner change to change parse_refspec_internal() to keep the trailing slash, instead of dropping it. Then the check you added is not needed (the trailing slash guarantees that the pattern matches at the hierarchy boundary), neither any of the change in this patch.

---
 builtin-clone.c        |    9 +++++----
 remote.c               |    7 ++++---
 t/t5513-fetch-track.sh |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-clone.c b/builtin-clone.c
index e086a40..022ffb9 100644
--- a/builtin-clone.c
+++ b/builtin-clone.c
@@ -440,12 +440,12 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
 
 	if (option_bare) {
-		strcpy(branch_top, "refs/heads/");
+		strcpy(branch_top, "refs/heads");
 
 		git_config_set("core.bare", "true");
 	} else {
 		snprintf(branch_top, sizeof(branch_top),
-			 "refs/remotes/%s/", option_origin);
+			 "refs/remotes/%s", option_origin);
 
 		/* Configure the remote */
 		snprintf(key, sizeof(key), "remote.%s.url", option_origin);
@@ -453,13 +453,13 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 		snprintf(key, sizeof(key), "remote.%s.fetch", option_origin);
 		snprintf(value, sizeof(value),
-				"+refs/heads/*:%s*", branch_top);
+				"+refs/heads/*:%s/*", branch_top);
 		git_config_set_multivar(key, value, "^$", 0);
 	}
 
 	refspec.force = 0;
 	refspec.pattern = 1;
-	refspec.src = "refs/heads/";
+	refspec.src = "refs/heads";
 	refspec.dst = branch_top;
 
 	if (path && !is_bundle)
@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 			strbuf_init(&head_ref, 0);
 			strbuf_addstr(&head_ref, branch_top);
+			strbuf_addch(&head_ref, '/');
 			strbuf_addstr(&head_ref, "HEAD");
 
 			/* Remote branch link */
diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 0d6020b..6b313fb 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ static struct refspec s_tag_refspec = {
 	0,
 	1,
 	0,
-	"refs/tags/",
-	"refs/tags/"
+	"refs/tags",
+	"refs/tags"
 };
 
 const struct refspec *tag_refspec = &s_tag_refspec;
@@ -1108,7 +1108,8 @@ static struct ref *get_expanded_map(const struct ref *remote_refs,
 	for (ref = remote_refs; ref; ref = ref->next) {
 		if (strchr(ref->name, '^'))
 			continue; /* a dereference item */
-		if (!prefixcmp(ref->name, refspec->src)) {
+		if (!prefixcmp(ref->name, refspec->src) &&
+		    ref->name[remote_prefix_len] == '/') {
 			const char *match;
 			struct ref *cpy = copy_ref(ref);
 			match = ref->name + remote_prefix_len;
diff --git a/t/t5513-fetch-track.sh b/t/t5513-fetch-track.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9e74862
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t5513-fetch-track.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='fetch follows remote tracking branches correctly'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success setup '
+	>file &&
+	git add . &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git commit -m Initial &&
+	git branch b-0 &&
+	git branch b1 &&
+	git branch b/one &&
+	test_create_repo other &&
+	(
+		cd other &&
+		git config remote.origin.url .. &&
+		git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/b/*:refs/remotes/b/*"
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success fetch '
+	(
+		cd other && git fetch origin &&
+		test "$(git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)")" = refs/remotes/b/one
+	)
+'
+
+test_done
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  3. Shawn O. PearceJul 25, 2008
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  5. fetch refspec foo/* matches foo*Jeff King, Jul 26, 2008
  6. Jeff KingJul 26, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinJul 26, 2008
  8. Jeff KingJul 28, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2008
  10. Jeff KingJul 28, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2008
  12. make sure parsed wildcard refspec ends with slashJunio C Hamano, Jul 27, 2008
  13. Daniel BarkalowJul 27, 2008
  14. Jeff KingJul 28, 2008
  15. bash completion: Add completion for 'git help'Lee Marlow, Jul 24, 2008

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