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authorMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>2015-06-03 13:51:59 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-06-08 17:35:41 (GMT)
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read_loose_refs(): treat NULL_SHA1 loose references as broken
NULL_SHA1 is used to indicate an "invalid object name" throughout our code (and the code of other git implementations), so it is vastly more likely that an on-disk reference was set to this value due to a software bug than that NULL_SHA1 is the legitimate SHA-1 of an actual object. Therefore, if a loose reference has the value NULL_SHA1, consider it to be broken. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 3c311d4..07f8847 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -1297,6 +1297,16 @@ static void read_loose_refs(const char *dirname, struct ref_dir *dir)
if (!read_ok) {
hashclr(sha1);
flag |= REF_ISBROKEN;
+ } else if (is_null_sha1(sha1)) {
+ /*
+ * It is so astronomically unlikely
+ * that NULL_SHA1 is the SHA-1 of an
+ * actual object that we consider its
+ * appearance in a loose reference
+ * file to be repo corruption
+ * (probably due to a software bug).
+ */
+ flag |= REF_ISBROKEN;
}
if (check_refname_format(refname.buf,