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Suppose you are managing many maintenance tracks in your project,
and some of the more recent ones are maint-2.36 and maint-2.37.
Further imagine that your project recently tagged the official 2.38
release, which means you would need to start maint-2.38 track soon,
by doing:
$ git checkout -b maint-2.38 v2.38.0^0
$ git branch --list 'maint-2.3[6-9]'
* maint-2.38
maint-2.36
maint-2.37
So far, so good. But it also is reasonable to want not to have to
worry about which maintenance track is the latest, by pointing a
more generic-sounding 'maint' branch at it, by doing:
$ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/maint refs/heads/maint-2.38
which would allow you to say "whichever it is, check out the latest
maintenance track", by doing:
$ git checkout maint
$ git branch --show-current
maint-2.38
It is arguably better to say that we are on 'maint-2.38' rather than
on 'maint', and "git merge/pull" would record "into maint-2.38" and
not "into maint", so I think what we have is a good behaviour.
One thing that is slightly irritating, however, is that I do not
think there is a good way (other than "cat .git/HEAD") to learn that
you checked out 'maint' to get into that state. Just like the output
of "git branch --show-current" shows above, "git symbolic-ref HEAD"
would report 'refs/heads/maint-2.38', bypassing the intermediate
symbolic ref at 'refs/heads/maint' that is pointed at by HEAD.
The internal resolve_ref() API already has the necessary support for
stopping after resolving a single level of a symbolic-ref, and we
can expose it by adding a "--[no-]recurse" option to the command.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
85 lines
2.3 KiB
C
85 lines
2.3 KiB
C
#include "builtin.h"
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#include "config.h"
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#include "cache.h"
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#include "refs.h"
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#include "parse-options.h"
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static const char * const git_symbolic_ref_usage[] = {
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N_("git symbolic-ref [<options>] <name> [<ref>]"),
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N_("git symbolic-ref -d [-q] [--no-recurse] <name>"),
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NULL
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};
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static int check_symref(const char *HEAD, int quiet, int shorten, int recurse, int print)
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{
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int resolve_flags, flag;
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const char *refname;
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resolve_flags = (recurse ? 0 : RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE);
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refname = resolve_ref_unsafe(HEAD, resolve_flags, NULL, &flag);
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if (!refname)
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die("No such ref: %s", HEAD);
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else if (!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF)) {
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if (!quiet)
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die("ref %s is not a symbolic ref", HEAD);
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else
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return 1;
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}
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if (print) {
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char *to_free = NULL;
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if (shorten)
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refname = to_free = shorten_unambiguous_ref(refname, 0);
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puts(refname);
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free(to_free);
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}
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return 0;
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}
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int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
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{
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int quiet = 0, delete = 0, shorten = 0, recurse = 1, ret = 0;
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const char *msg = NULL;
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struct option options[] = {
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OPT__QUIET(&quiet,
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N_("suppress error message for non-symbolic (detached) refs")),
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OPT_BOOL('d', "delete", &delete, N_("delete symbolic ref")),
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OPT_BOOL(0, "short", &shorten, N_("shorten ref output")),
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OPT_BOOL(0, "recurse", &recurse, N_("recursively dereference (default)")),
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OPT_STRING('m', NULL, &msg, N_("reason"), N_("reason of the update")),
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OPT_END(),
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};
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git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
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argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options,
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git_symbolic_ref_usage, 0);
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if (msg && !*msg)
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die("Refusing to perform update with empty message");
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if (delete) {
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if (argc != 1)
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usage_with_options(git_symbolic_ref_usage, options);
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ret = check_symref(argv[0], 1, 0, 0, 0);
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if (ret)
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die("Cannot delete %s, not a symbolic ref", argv[0]);
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if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
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die("deleting '%s' is not allowed", argv[0]);
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return delete_ref(NULL, argv[0], NULL, REF_NO_DEREF);
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}
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switch (argc) {
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case 1:
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ret = check_symref(argv[0], quiet, shorten, recurse, 1);
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break;
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case 2:
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if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD") &&
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!starts_with(argv[1], "refs/"))
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die("Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/");
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ret = !!create_symref(argv[0], argv[1], msg);
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break;
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default:
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usage_with_options(git_symbolic_ref_usage, options);
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}
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return ret;
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}
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