1 files changed, 26 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index faac158..bf8f0f0 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -203,11 +203,12 @@ const char *find_unique_abbrev(const unsigned char *sha1, int len)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-static int ambiguous_path(const char *path)
+static int ambiguous_path(const char *path, int len)
 {
 	int slash = 1;
+	int cnt;
 
-	for (;;) {
+	for (cnt = 0; cnt < len; cnt++) {
 		switch (*path++) {
 		case '\0':
 			break;
@@ -224,6 +225,7 @@ static int ambiguous_path(const char *path)
 		}
 		return slash;
 	}
+	return slash;
 }
 
 static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
@@ -242,26 +244,41 @@ static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Accept only unambiguous ref paths. */
-	if (ambiguous_path(str))
+	if (ambiguous_path(str, len))
 		return -1;
 
 	for (p = prefix; *p; p++) {
 		char *pathname = git_path("%s/%.*s", *p, len, str);
+
 		if (!read_ref(pathname, sha1)) {
 			/* Must be unique; i.e. when heads/foo and
 			 * tags/foo are both present, reject "foo".
-			 * Note that read_ref() eventually calls
-			 * get_sha1_hex() which can smudge initial
-			 * part of the buffer even if what is read
-			 * is found to be invalid halfway.
 			 */
 			if (1 < found++)
 				return -1;
 		}
+
+		/* We want to allow .git/description file and
+		 * "description" branch to exist at the same time.
+		 * "git-rev-parse description" should silently skip
+		 * .git/description file as a candidate for
+		 * get_sha1().  However, having garbage file anywhere
+		 * under refs/ is not OK, and we would not have caught
+		 * ambiguous heads and tags with the above test.
+		 */
+		else if (**p && !access(pathname, F_OK)) {
+			/* Garbage exists under .git/refs */
+			return error("garbage ref found '%s'", pathname);
+		}
 	}
-	if (found == 1)
+	switch (found) {
+	case 0:
+		return -1;
+	case 1:
 		return 0;
-	return -1;
+	default:
+		return error("ambiguous refname '%.*s'", len, str);
+	}
 }
 
 static int get_sha1_1(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1);