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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-ref.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin-update-ref.c | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | cache.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | refs.c | 26 |
4 files changed, 50 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index e062030e9..71bcb7954 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-update-ref - update the object name stored in a ref safely SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-update-ref' [-m <reason>] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>] +'git-update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> <oldvalue> | <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>]) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ possibly dereferencing the symbolic refs, after verifying that the current value of the <ref> matches <oldvalue>. E.g. `git-update-ref refs/heads/master <newvalue> <oldvalue>` updates the master branch head to <newvalue> only if its current -value is <oldvalue>. +value is <oldvalue>. You can specify 40 "0" or an empty string +as <oldvalue> to make sure that the ref you are creating does +not exist. It also allows a "ref" file to be a symbolic pointer to another ref file by starting with the four-byte header sequence of @@ -49,6 +51,10 @@ for reading but not for writing (so we'll never write through a ref symlink to some other tree, if you have copied a whole archive by creating a symlink tree). +With `-d` flag, it deletes the named <ref> after verifying it +still contains <oldvalue>. + + Logging Updates --------------- If config parameter "core.logAllRefUpdates" is true or the file diff --git a/builtin-update-ref.c b/builtin-update-ref.c index ab528337a..b34e5987d 100644 --- a/builtin-update-ref.c +++ b/builtin-update-ref.c @@ -3,15 +3,16 @@ #include "builtin.h" static const char git_update_ref_usage[] = -"git-update-ref <refname> <value> [<oldval>] [-m <reason>]"; +"git-update-ref [-m <reason>] (-d <refname> <value> | <refname> <value> [<oldval>])"; int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) { const char *refname=NULL, *value=NULL, *oldval=NULL, *msg=NULL; struct ref_lock *lock; unsigned char sha1[20], oldsha1[20]; - int i; + int i, delete; + delete = 0; setup_ident(); git_config(git_default_config); @@ -26,6 +27,10 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) die("Refusing to perform update with \\n in message."); continue; } + if (!strcmp("-d", argv[i])) { + delete = 1; + continue; + } if (!refname) { refname = argv[i]; continue; @@ -44,8 +49,15 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (get_sha1(value, sha1)) die("%s: not a valid SHA1", value); + + if (delete) { + if (oldval) + usage(git_update_ref_usage); + return delete_ref(refname, sha1); + } + hashclr(oldsha1); - if (oldval && get_sha1(oldval, oldsha1)) + if (oldval && *oldval && get_sha1(oldval, oldsha1)) die("%s: not a valid old SHA1", oldval); lock = lock_any_ref_for_update(refname, oldval ? oldsha1 : NULL); @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ struct lock_file { extern int hold_lock_file_for_update(struct lock_file *, const char *path, int); extern int commit_lock_file(struct lock_file *); extern void rollback_lock_file(struct lock_file *); +extern int delete_ref(const char *, unsigned char *sha1); /* Environment bits from configuration mechanism */ extern int use_legacy_headers; @@ -378,6 +378,32 @@ int get_ref_sha1(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1) return read_ref(mkpath("refs/%s", ref), sha1); } +int delete_ref(const char *refname, unsigned char *sha1) +{ + struct ref_lock *lock; + int err, i, ret = 0; + + lock = lock_any_ref_for_update(refname, sha1); + if (!lock) + return 1; + i = strlen(lock->lk->filename) - 5; /* .lock */ + lock->lk->filename[i] = 0; + err = unlink(lock->lk->filename); + if (err) { + ret = 1; + error("unlink(%s) failed: %s", + lock->lk->filename, strerror(errno)); + } + lock->lk->filename[i] = '.'; + + err = unlink(lock->log_file); + if (err && errno != ENOENT) + fprintf(stderr, "warning: unlink(%s) failed: %s", + lock->log_file, strerror(errno)); + + return ret; +} + /* * Make sure "ref" is something reasonable to have under ".git/refs/"; * We do not like it if: |