ref: check whether the target of the symref is a ref

Ideally, we want to the users use "git symbolic-ref" to create symrefs
instead of writing raw contents into the filesystem. However, "git
symbolic-ref" is strict with the refname but not strict with the
referent. For example, we can make the "referent" located at the
"$(gitdir)/logs/aaa" and manually write the content into this where we
can still successfully parse this symref by using "git rev-parse".

  $ git init repo && cd repo && git commit --allow-empty -mx
  $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/test logs/aaa
  $ echo $(git rev-parse HEAD) > .git/logs/aaa
  $ git rev-parse test

We may need to add some restrictions for "referent" parameter when using
"git symbolic-ref" to create symrefs because ideally all the
nonpseudo-refs should be located under the "refs" directory and we may
tighten this in the future.

In order to tell the user we may tighten the above situation, create
a new fsck message "symrefTargetIsNotARef" to notify the user that this
may become an error in the future.

Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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shejialuo
2024-11-20 19:52:09 +08:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent a6354e6048
commit d996b4475c
4 changed files with 51 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ enum fsck_msg_type {
FUNC(BAD_TAG_NAME, INFO) \
FUNC(MISSING_TAGGER_ENTRY, INFO) \
FUNC(REF_MISSING_NEWLINE, INFO) \
FUNC(SYMREF_TARGET_IS_NOT_A_REF, INFO) \
FUNC(TRAILING_REF_CONTENT, INFO) \
/* ignored (elevated when requested) */ \
FUNC(EXTRA_HEADER_ENTRY, IGNORE)