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git-mirror/t/t1464-refs-delete.sh
Patrick Steinhardt b3355995cf builtin/refs: add "delete" subcommand
Reference-related functionality in Git is currently spread across many
different commands: git-update-ref(1), git-for-each-ref(1),
git-show-ref(1), git-pack-refs(1) and git-symbolic-ref(1). This makes it
hard for users to discover what functionality we have available to work
with references.

We have thus started to consolidate this functionality into git-refs(1),
which is a toolbox of everything related to references. Until now, the
command doesn't handle functionality of git-update-ref(1).

Fix this gap by introducing a new "delete" subcommand, which is the
equivalent of `git update-ref -d`.

Note that we're intentionally not using a generic "write" subcommand
with a "-d" flag. This is rather harder to discover, and subcommands
that are implmented as flags tend to be hard to reason about in the code
as we'd have to handle mutually-exclusive flags that stem from the other
subcommand-like modes.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-07-06 07:45:57 -07:00

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#!/bin/sh
test_description='git refs delete'
. ./test-lib.sh
setup_repo () {
git init "$1" &&
test_commit -C "$1" A &&
test_commit -C "$1" B
}
test_expect_success 'delete without oldvalue verification' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
(
cd repo &&
A=$(git rev-parse A) &&
git update-ref refs/heads/foo $A &&
git refs delete refs/heads/foo &&
test_must_fail git refs exists refs/heads/foo
)
'
test_expect_success 'delete with matching oldvalue' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
(
cd repo &&
A=$(git rev-parse A) &&
git update-ref refs/heads/foo $A &&
git refs delete refs/heads/foo $A &&
test_must_fail git refs exists refs/heads/foo
)
'
test_expect_success 'delete with stale oldvalue fails' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
(
cd repo &&
A=$(git rev-parse A) &&
B=$(git rev-parse B) &&
git update-ref refs/heads/foo $A &&
test_must_fail git refs delete refs/heads/foo $B 2>err &&
test_grep " but expected " err &&
git refs exists refs/heads/foo
)
'
test_expect_success 'delete with null oldvalue fails' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
(
cd repo &&
A=$(git rev-parse A) &&
git update-ref refs/heads/foo $A &&
test_must_fail git refs delete refs/heads/foo $ZERO_OID 2>err &&
test_grep "null old object ID" err &&
git refs exists refs/heads/foo
)
'
test_expect_success 'delete with invalid oldvalue fails' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
(
cd repo &&
A=$(git rev-parse A) &&
git update-ref refs/heads/foo $A &&
test_must_fail git refs delete refs/heads/foo invalid-oid 2>err &&
test_grep "invalid old object ID" err &&
git refs exists refs/heads/foo
)
'
test_expect_success 'delete symref with --no-deref leaves target intact' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
(
cd repo &&
A=$(git rev-parse A) &&
git update-ref refs/heads/foo $A &&
git symbolic-ref refs/heads/symref refs/heads/foo &&
git refs delete --no-deref refs/heads/symref &&
test_must_fail git refs exists refs/heads/symref &&
git refs exists refs/heads/foo
)
'
test_expect_success 'delete symref with --no-deref verifies target OID' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
(
cd repo &&
A=$(git rev-parse A) &&
B=$(git rev-parse B) &&
git update-ref refs/heads/foo $A &&
git symbolic-ref refs/heads/symref refs/heads/foo &&
test_must_fail git refs delete --no-deref refs/heads/symref $B &&
git refs exists refs/heads/symref &&
git refs delete --no-deref refs/heads/symref $A &&
test_must_fail git refs exists refs/heads/symref &&
git refs exists refs/heads/foo
)
'
test_expect_success 'delete with message records reason in reflog' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
(
cd repo &&
A=$(git rev-parse A) &&
git update-ref refs/heads/foo $A &&
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/foo &&
git refs delete --message=delete-reason refs/heads/foo &&
test_must_fail git refs exists refs/heads/foo &&
test-tool ref-store main for-each-reflog-ent HEAD >actual &&
test_grep "delete-reason$" actual
)
'
test_expect_success 'delete with empty message fails' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
(
cd repo &&
A=$(git rev-parse A) &&
git update-ref refs/heads/foo $A &&
test_must_fail git refs delete --message= refs/heads/foo 2>err &&
test_grep "empty message" err &&
git refs exists refs/heads/foo
)
'
test_expect_success 'delete without arguments fails' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
test_must_fail git -C repo refs delete 2>err &&
test_grep "requires reference name" err
'
test_expect_success 'delete with too many arguments fails' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
setup_repo repo &&
test_must_fail git refs delete one two three 2>err &&
test_grep "requires reference name" err
'
test_done