Forbid DEL characters in reference names

DEL is an ASCII control character and therefore should not be
permitted in reference names.  Add tests for this and other unusual
characters.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index e3c05110e58ca5684f9c43b1e1a5eb2587c96828..6f471d42c37ab4e66f402d1c983d3d42e4ebb2d8 100644 (file)
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ int for_each_rawref(each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data)
 
 static inline int bad_ref_char(int ch)
 {
-       if (((unsigned) ch) <= ' ' ||
+       if (((unsigned) ch) <= ' ' || ch == 0x7f ||
            ch == '~' || ch == '^' || ch == ':' || ch == '\\')
                return 1;
        /* 2.13 Pattern Matching Notation */

diff --git a/t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh b/t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh
index 7563043c53f09cd28b77bcc4f227ecf3a855f163..ed4275afe3100491ea57025632665182127f33cf 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh
+++ b/t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ invalid_ref 'heads/foo.lock'
 valid_ref 'heads/foo@bar'
 invalid_ref 'heads/v@{ation'
 invalid_ref 'heads/foo\bar'
+invalid_ref "$(printf 'heads/foo\t')"
+invalid_ref "$(printf 'heads/foo\177')"
+valid_ref "$(printf 'heads/fu\303\237')"
 
 test_expect_success "check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" '
        T=$(git write-tree) &&