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[PATCH] Fix branches file configuration

From
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Mar 25, 2008, 23:35 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.LNX.1.00.0803251931500.19665@iabervon.org>
It turns out that .git/branches/foo should fetch into refs/heads/foo.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
---
We still don't have a test for that bit of the behavior, so I could have 
it still doing the wrong thing. But it at least should do what I think 
people want.

Andrew, could you give this a try, on top of current master (or, for that matter, any released version that doesn't work), and let me know if it does the wrong thing?

 remote.c |   15 +++++++--------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 40ed246..a027bca 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static void read_branches_file(struct remote *remote)
 {
 	const char *slash = strchr(remote->name, '/');
 	char *frag;
-	char *branch;
+	struct strbuf branch;
 	int n = slash ? slash - remote->name : 1000;
 	FILE *f = fopen(git_path("branches/%.*s", n, remote->name), "r");
 	char *s, *p;
@@ -258,17 +258,16 @@ static void read_branches_file(struct remote *remote)
 	strcpy(p, s);
 	if (slash)
 		strcat(p, slash);
+	strbuf_init(&branch, 0);
 	frag = strchr(p, '#');
 	if (frag) {
 		*(frag++) = '\0';
-		branch = xmalloc(strlen(frag) + 12);
-		strcpy(branch, "refs/heads/");
-		strcat(branch, frag);
-	} else {
-		branch = "refs/heads/master";
-	}
+		strbuf_addf(&branch, "refs/heads/%s", frag);
+	} else
+		strbuf_addstr(&branch, "refs/heads/master");
 	add_url_alias(remote, p);
-	add_fetch_refspec(remote, branch);
+	strbuf_addf(&branch, ":refs/heads/%s", remote->name);
+	add_fetch_refspec(remote, strbuf_detach(&branch, 0));
 	remote->fetch_tags = 1; /* always auto-follow */
 }
 
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1.5.4.3.610.gea6cd
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