do_one_ref(): null_sha1 check is not about broken ref

f8948e2 (remote prune: warn dangling symrefs, 2009-02-08) introduced a
more dangerous variant of for_each_ref() family that skips the check for
dangling refs, but it also made another unrelated check optional by
mistake.

The check to see if a ref points at 0{40} is not about brokenness, but is
about a possible future plan to represent a deleted ref by writing 40 "0"
in a loose ref when there is a stale version of the same ref already in
.git/packed-refs, so that we can implement deletion of a ref without
having to rewrite the packed refs file excluding the ref being deleted.

This check has to live outside of the conditional.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index bb0762e..3da3c8c 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -531,9 +531,10 @@ static int do_one_ref(const char *base, each_ref_fn fn, int trim,
 {
 	if (strncmp(base, entry->name, trim))
 		return 0;
+	/* Is this a "negative ref" that represents a deleted ref? */
+	if (is_null_sha1(entry->sha1))
+		return 0;
 	if (!(flags & DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_BROKEN)) {
-		if (is_null_sha1(entry->sha1))
-			return 0;
 		if (!has_sha1_file(entry->sha1)) {
 			error("%s does not point to a valid object!", entry->name);
 			return 0;