Subject: [PATCH] refs: dereference the value of the required pointer

From: "AZero13 via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:10:49 +0000

From: Greg Funni <[email-masked]>

Currently, this always prints yes because required is non-null.

This is the wrong behavior. The boolean must be
dereferenced.

Signed-off-by: Greg Funni <[email-masked]>
---
    refs: dereference the value of the required pointer
    
    Currently, this always prints yes because required is non-null.
    
    This is the wrong behavior. The boolean must be dereferenced.
    
    Signed-off-by: Greg Funni [email-masked]

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2130%2FAZero13%2Fref-cache-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2130/AZero13/ref-cache-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2130

 refs/debug.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/refs/debug.c b/refs/debug.c
index 3e31228c9a..639db0f26e 100644
--- a/refs/debug.c
+++ b/refs/debug.c
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ static int debug_optimize_required(struct ref_store *ref_store,
 	struct debug_ref_store *drefs = (struct debug_ref_store *)ref_store;
 	int res = drefs->refs->be->optimize_required(drefs->refs, opts, required);
 	trace_printf_key(&trace_refs, "optimize_required: %s, res: %d\n",
-			 required ? "yes" : "no", res);
+			 *required ? "yes" : "no", res);
 	return res;
 }

base-commit: c4a0c8845e2426375ad257b6c221a3a7d92ecfda
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