From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:46:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: Don't trigger a bus error when given the refspec "tag"
Message-ID: <9FD2C650-C9DD-41E1-AE27-684A82E1D700@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804051931480.12583@eeepc-johanness>

On Apr 5, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/builtin-fetch.c b/builtin-fetch.c
>> index a11548c..5841b3e 100644
>> --- a/builtin-fetch.c
>> +++ b/builtin-fetch.c
>> @@ -637,6 +637,8 @@ int cmd_fetch(int argc, const char **argv,  
>> const char *prefix)
>> 			if (!strcmp(argv[i], "tag")) {
>> 				char *ref;
>> 				i++;
>> +				if (i >= argc)
>> +					die("You need to specify a tag name.");
>
> Would it not be better to check in the if() above?  IOW
>
> 			if (i + 1 < argc && !strcmp(argv[i], "tag")) {
>
> Hmm?

So that `git fetch origin tag` will try and fetch the branch named  
tag? Given that we treat "tag foo" as shorthand for refs/tags/foo:refs/ 
tags/foo it seems like it would be unexpected to treat "tag" as just a  
plain ref. I much prefer to die in this situation, let the user fix  
the refspec to mean exactly what they want (either by adding a tag  
name, or by using tag: if they really want a branch named tag).

-Kevin

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