From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:30:16 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: validate_headref: tighten ref-matching to just branches
X-Git-Tag: v1.6.2-rc0~17^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b229d18a;p=git.git

validate_headref: tighten ref-matching to just branches

When we are trying to determine whether a directory contains
a git repository, one of the tests we do is to check whether
HEAD is either a symlink or a symref into the "refs/"
hierarchy, or a detached HEAD.

We can tighten this a little more, though: a non-detached
HEAD should always point to a branch (since checking out
anything else should result in detachment), so it is safe to
check for "refs/heads/".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index a074aea64..108d9e959 100644
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ int validate_headref(const char *path)
 	/* Make sure it is a "refs/.." symlink */
 	if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
 		len = readlink(path, buffer, sizeof(buffer)-1);
-		if (len >= 5 && !memcmp("refs/", buffer, 5))
+		if (len >= 11 && !memcmp("refs/heads/", buffer, 11))
 			return 0;
 		return -1;
 	}
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int validate_headref(const char *path)
 		len -= 4;
 		while (len && isspace(*buf))
 			buf++, len--;
-		if (len >= 5 && !memcmp("refs/", buf, 5))
+		if (len >= 11 && !memcmp("refs/heads/", buf, 11))
 			return 0;
 	}