update-ref: allow --no-deref with --stdin

If passed both --no-deref and --stdin, update-ref would error out with a
general usage message that did not at all suggest these options were
incompatible.  The manpage for update-ref did suggest through its
synopsis line that --no-deref and --stdin were incompatible, but it sadly
also incorrectly suggested that -d and --no-deref were incompatible.  So
the help around the --no-deref option is buggy in a few ways.

The --stdin option did provide a different mechanism for avoiding
dereferencing symbolic-refs: adding a line reading
option no-deref
before every other directive in the input.  (Technically, if the user
wants to do the extra work of first determining which refs they want to
update or delete are symbolic, then they only need to put the extra
"option no-deref" lines before the updates of those refs.  But in some
cases, that's more work than just adding the "option no-deref" before
every other directive.)

It's easier to allow the user to just pass --no-deref along with --stdin
in order to tell update-ref that the user doesn't want any symbolic ref
to be dereferenced.  It also makes the update-ref documentation simpler.
Implement that, and update the documentation to match.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
index bc8fdfd4691326b44e2cbdea3dc4925cf7440515..fda8516677237e9c0a8343f9ca96a1eb969b3492 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-update-ref - Update the object name stored in a ref safely
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> [<oldvalue>] | [--no-deref] [--create-reflog] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>] | --stdin [-z])
+'git update-ref' [-m <reason>] [--no-deref] (-d <ref> [<oldvalue>] | [--create-reflog] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>] | --stdin [-z])
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------

diff --git a/builtin/update-ref.c b/builtin/update-ref.c
index 54fac01f210260d08a465af5b9fa7ae39f893395..2d8f7f05785dca5a083ee6d003d16b4d008dc4d2 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/update-ref.c
+++ b/builtin/update-ref.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ static const char * const git_update_ref_usage[] = {
 
 static char line_termination = '\n';
 static unsigned int update_flags;
+static unsigned int default_flags;
 static unsigned create_reflog_flag;
 static const char *msg;
 
@@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ static const char *parse_cmd_update(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
                                   msg, &err))
                die("%s", err.buf);
 
-       update_flags = 0;
+       update_flags = default_flags;
        free(refname);
        strbuf_release(&err);
 
@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ static const char *parse_cmd_create(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
                                   msg, &err))
                die("%s", err.buf);
 
-       update_flags = 0;
+       update_flags = default_flags;
        free(refname);
        strbuf_release(&err);
 
@@ -273,7 +274,7 @@ static const char *parse_cmd_delete(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
                                   update_flags, msg, &err))
                die("%s", err.buf);
 
-       update_flags = 0;
+       update_flags = default_flags;
        free(refname);
        strbuf_release(&err);
 
@@ -302,7 +303,7 @@ static const char *parse_cmd_verify(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
                                   update_flags, &err))
                die("%s", err.buf);
 
-       update_flags = 0;
+       update_flags = default_flags;
        free(refname);
        strbuf_release(&err);
 
@@ -357,7 +358,6 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        const char *refname, *oldval;
        struct object_id oid, oldoid;
        int delete = 0, no_deref = 0, read_stdin = 0, end_null = 0;
-       unsigned int flags = 0;
        int create_reflog = 0;
        struct option options[] = {
                OPT_STRING( 'm', NULL, &msg, N_("reason"), N_("reason of the update")),
@@ -378,6 +378,11 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
        create_reflog_flag = create_reflog ? REF_FORCE_CREATE_REFLOG : 0;
 
+       if (no_deref) {
+               default_flags = REF_NO_DEREF;
+               update_flags = default_flags;
+       }
+
        if (read_stdin) {
                struct strbuf err = STRBUF_INIT;
                struct ref_transaction *transaction;
@@ -385,7 +390,7 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                transaction = ref_transaction_begin(&err);
                if (!transaction)
                        die("%s", err.buf);
-               if (delete || no_deref || argc > 0)
+               if (delete || argc > 0)
                        usage_with_options(git_update_ref_usage, options);
                if (end_null)
                        line_termination = '\0';
@@ -427,8 +432,6 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                        die("%s: not a valid old SHA1", oldval);
        }
 
-       if (no_deref)
-               flags = REF_NO_DEREF;
        if (delete)
                /*
                 * For purposes of backwards compatibility, we treat
@@ -436,9 +439,9 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                 */
                return delete_ref(msg, refname,
                                  (oldval && !is_null_oid(&oldoid)) ? &oldoid : NULL,
-                                 flags);
+                                 default_flags);
        else
                return update_ref(msg, refname, &oid, oldval ? &oldoid : NULL,
-                                 flags | create_reflog_flag,
+                                 default_flags | create_reflog_flag,
                                  UPDATE_REFS_DIE_ON_ERR);
 }

diff --git a/t/t1400-update-ref.sh b/t/t1400-update-ref.sh
index 7c8df2095574f66f6d434f7717228f6f76a2a908..02493f14ba2071bb79d520c1d9c262ccf63c5207 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t1400-update-ref.sh
+++ b/t/t1400-update-ref.sh
@@ -807,6 +807,37 @@ test_expect_success 'stdin delete symref works option no-deref' '
        test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'stdin update symref works flag --no-deref' '
+       git symbolic-ref TESTSYMREFONE $b &&
+       git symbolic-ref TESTSYMREFTWO $b &&
+       cat >stdin <<-EOF &&
+       update TESTSYMREFONE $a $b
+       update TESTSYMREFTWO $a $b
+       EOF
+       git update-ref --no-deref --stdin <stdin &&
+       git rev-parse TESTSYMREFONE TESTSYMREFTWO >expect &&
+       git rev-parse $a $a >actual &&
+       test_cmp expect actual &&
+       git rev-parse $m~1 >expect &&
+       git rev-parse $b >actual &&
+       test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'stdin delete symref works flag --no-deref' '
+       git symbolic-ref TESTSYMREFONE $b &&
+       git symbolic-ref TESTSYMREFTWO $b &&
+       cat >stdin <<-EOF &&
+       delete TESTSYMREFONE $b
+       delete TESTSYMREFTWO $b
+       EOF
+       git update-ref --no-deref --stdin <stdin &&
+       test_must_fail git rev-parse --verify -q TESTSYMREFONE &&
+       test_must_fail git rev-parse --verify -q TESTSYMREFTWO &&
+       git rev-parse $m~1 >expect &&
+       git rev-parse $b >actual &&
+       test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'stdin delete ref works with right old value' '
        echo "delete $b $m~1" >stdin &&
        git update-ref --stdin <stdin &&