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branch: allow deleting dangling branches with --force

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git branch only allows deleting branches that point to valid commits.
Skip that check if --force is given, as the caller is indicating with
it that they know what they are doing and accept the consequences.
This allows deleting dangling branches, which previously had to be
reset to a valid start-point using --force first.

Reported-by: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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René Scharfe 2021-08-27 20:35:35 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 225bc32a98
commit 597a977489
3 changed files with 16 additions and 2 deletions
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Documentation/git-branch.txt
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@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ OPTIONS
Reset <branchname> to <startpoint>, even if <branchname> exists
already. Without `-f`, 'git branch' refuses to change an existing branch.
In combination with `-d` (or `--delete`), allow deleting the
branch irrespective of its merged status. In combination with
branch irrespective of its merged status, or whether it even
points to a valid commit. In combination with
`-m` (or `--move`), allow renaming the branch even if the new
branch name already exists, the same applies for `-c` (or `--copy`).

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builtin/branch.c
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@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int check_branch_commit(const char *branchname, const char *refname,
int kinds, int force)
{
struct commit *rev = lookup_commit_reference(the_repository, oid);
if (!rev) {
if (!force && !rev) {
error(_("Couldn't look up commit object for '%s'"), refname);
return -1;
}

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t/t3200-branch.sh
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@ -1272,6 +1272,19 @@ test_expect_success 'attempt to delete a branch merged to its base' '
test_must_fail git branch -d my10
'
test_expect_success 'branch --delete --force removes dangling branch' '
git checkout main &&
test_commit unstable &&
hash=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
objpath=$(echo $hash | sed -e "s|^..|.git/objects/&/|") &&
git branch --no-track dangling &&
mv $objpath $objpath.x &&
test_when_finished "mv $objpath.x $objpath" &&
git branch --delete --force dangling &&
git for-each-ref refs/heads/dangling >actual &&
test_must_be_empty actual
'
test_expect_success 'use --edit-description' '
write_script editor <<-\EOF &&
echo "New contents" >"$1"