Revert "validate_headref: tighten ref-matching to just branches"

This reverts commit b229d18a809c169314b7f0d048dc5a7632e8f916, at least
until we figure out how to work better with TopGit that points HEAD to
refs/top-bases/ hierarchy.

diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index dd22370e8e5cb932f9c8ce8756c154073771b35b..4b9107fed10c1f3551acf1f14d2ba5d1ba8a0b84 100644 (file)
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ int validate_headref(const char *path)
        /* Make sure it is a "refs/.." symlink */
        if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
                len = readlink(path, buffer, sizeof(buffer)-1);
-               if (len >= 11 && !memcmp("refs/heads/", buffer, 11))
+               if (len >= 5 && !memcmp("refs/", buffer, 5))
                        return 0;
                return -1;
        }
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int validate_headref(const char *path)
                len -= 4;
                while (len && isspace(*buf))
                        buf++, len--;
-               if (len >= 11 && !memcmp("refs/heads/", buf, 11))
+               if (len >= 5 && !memcmp("refs/", buf, 5))
                        return 0;
        }