[PATCH] Make .git directory validation code test HEAD

Inspired by a report by Kalle Valo, this changes git-sh-setup-script and
the "setup_git_directory()" function to test that $GIT_DIR/HEAD is a
symlink, since a number of core git features depend on that these days.

We used to allow a regular file there, but git-fsck-cache has been
complaining about that for a while, and anything that uses branches
depends on the HEAD file being a symlink, so let's just encode that as a
fundamental requirement.

Before, a non-symlink HEAD file would appear to work, but have subtle bugs
like not having the HEAD show up as a valid reference (because it wasn't
under "refs"). Now, we will complain loudly, and the user can fix it up
trivially instead of getting strange behaviour.

This also removes the tests for "$GIT_DIR" and "$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY"
being directories, since the other tests will implicitly test for that
anyway (ie the tests for HEAD, refs and 00 would fail).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/git-sh-setup-script b/git-sh-setup-script
index 5bf471f..84e15df 100755
--- a/git-sh-setup-script
+++ b/git-sh-setup-script
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ die() {
 	exit 1
 }
 
-[ -d "$GIT_DIR" ] &&
+[ -h "$GIT_DIR/HEAD" ] &&
 [ -d "$GIT_DIR/refs" ] &&
-[ -d "$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY" ] &&
 [ -d "$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/00" ]