X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=archive.c;h=164bbd014a82feac48886db6f27ba85d61a059ac;hb=bd193f46b70fd3f8a55e2a8dcbb1fb2b4eec13d6;hp=2ae740a71e6d43ee81afdeddcb53f983f10a8fff;hpb=68f80f549092bcbb2409ba9c0eace73c085ba7cc;p=git.git

diff --git a/archive.c b/archive.c
index 2ae740a71..164bbd014 100644
--- a/archive.c
+++ b/archive.c
@@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ static void parse_pathspec_arg(const char **pathspec,
 }
 
 static void parse_treeish_arg(const char **argv,
-		struct archiver_args *ar_args, const char *prefix)
+		struct archiver_args *ar_args, const char *prefix,
+		int remote)
 {
 	const char *name = argv[0];
 	const unsigned char *commit_sha1;
@@ -256,8 +257,17 @@ static void parse_treeish_arg(const char **argv,
 	const struct commit *commit;
 	unsigned char sha1[20];
 
-	if (get_sha1(name, sha1))
-		die("Not a valid object name");
+	/* Remotes are only allowed to fetch actual refs */
+	if (remote) {
+		char *ref = NULL;
+		if (!dwim_ref(name, strlen(name), sha1, &ref))
+			die("no such ref: %s", name);
+		free(ref);
+	}
+	else {
+		if (get_sha1(name, sha1))
+			die("Not a valid object name");
+	}
 
 	commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(sha1, 1);
 	if (commit) {
@@ -414,7 +424,7 @@ int write_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
 		setup_git_directory();
 	}
 
-	parse_treeish_arg(argv, &args, prefix);
+	parse_treeish_arg(argv, &args, prefix, remote);
 	parse_pathspec_arg(argv + 1, &args);
 
 	return ar->write_archive(ar, &args);