Subject: Re: Trying to push into empty repo, get fatal: bad revision 'HEAD'

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:15:45 -0700

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> A fix (or is it an enhancement) would probably look like this.
> ...

And this time with a pair of tests.  It probably should be extended
to make sure it fails when the pushed HEAD records paths that are
floating in the working tree (as that would mean overwrting them),
but it is getting late and I am lazy, so ... ;-)

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] push-to-deploy: allow pushing into an unborn branch and updating it

Setting receive.denycurrentbranch to updateinstead and pushing into
the current branch, when the working tree and the index is truly
clean, is supposed to reset the working tree and the index to match
the tree of the pushed commit.  This did not work when pushing into
an unborn branch.

The code that drives push-to-checkout hook needs no change, as the
interface is defined so that hook can decide what to do when the
push is coming to an unborn branch and take an appropriate action
since the beginning.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/receive-pack.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++-
 t/t5516-fetch-push.sh  | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
index fc8ec9c..0c0a261 100644
--- a/builtin/receive-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c
@@ -733,6 +733,22 @@ static int update_shallow_ref(struct command *cmd, struct shallow_info *si)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * NEEDSWORK: we should consolidate various implementions of "are we
+ * on an unborn branch?" test into one, and make the unified one more
+ * robust. !get_sha1() based check used here and elsewhere would not
+ * allow us to tell an unborn branch from corrupt ref, for example.
+ * For the purpose of fixing "deploy-to-update does not work when
+ * pushing into an empty repository" issue, this should suffice for
+ * now.
+ */
+static int head_has_history(void)
+{
+	unsigned char sha1[20];
+
+	return !get_sha1("HEAD", sha1);
+}
+
 static const char *push_to_deploy(unsigned char *sha1,
 				  struct argv_array *env,
 				  const char *work_tree)
@@ -745,7 +761,7 @@ static const char *push_to_deploy(unsigned char *sha1,
 	};
 	const char *diff_index[] = {
 		"diff-index", "--quiet", "--cached", "--ignore-submodules",
-		"HEAD", "--", NULL
+		NULL, "--", NULL
 	};
 	const char *read_tree[] = {
 		"read-tree", "-u", "-m", NULL, NULL
@@ -772,6 +788,9 @@ static const char *push_to_deploy(unsigned char *sha1,
 	if (run_command(&child))
 		return "Working directory has unstaged changes";
 
+	/* diff-index with either HEAD or an empty tree */
+	diff_index[4] = head_has_history() ? "HEAD" : EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX;
+
 	child_process_init(&child);
 	child.argv = diff_index;
 	child.env = env->argv;
diff --git a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
index e4436c1..329d7d4 100755
--- a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
+++ b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
@@ -1430,8 +1430,22 @@ test_expect_success 'receive.denyCurrentBranch = updateInstead' '
 		test $(git -C .. rev-parse HEAD^^) = $(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
 		git diff --quiet &&
 		test fifth = "$(cat path3)"
-	)
+	) &&
 
+	# (5) push into void
+	rm -fr void &&
+	git init void &&
+	(
+		cd void &&
+		git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead
+	) &&
+	git push void master &&
+	(
+		cd void &&
+		test $(git -C .. rev-parse master) = $(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+		git diff --quiet &&
+		git diff --cached --quiet
+	)
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'updateInstead with push-to-checkout hook' '
@@ -1494,6 +1508,45 @@ test_expect_success 'updateInstead with push-to-checkout hook' '
 		test "$(cat path5)" = irrelevant &&
 		test "$(git diff --name-only --cached HEAD)" = path5 &&
 		test $(git -C .. rev-parse HEAD) = $(git rev-parse HEAD)
+	) &&
+
+	# push into void
+	rm -fr void &&
+	git init void &&
+	(
+		cd void &&
+		git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead &&
+		write_script .git/hooks/push-to-checkout <<-\EOF
+		if git rev-parse --quiet --verify HEAD
+		then
+			has_head=yes
+			echo >&2 updating from $(git rev-parse HEAD)
+		else
+			has_head=no
+			echo >&2 pushing into void
+		fi
+		echo >&2 updating to "$1"
+
+		git update-index -q --refresh &&
+		case "$has_head" in
+		yes)
+			git read-tree -u -m HEAD "$1" ;;
+		no)
+			git read-tree -u -m "$1" ;;
+		esac || {
+			status=$?
+			echo >&2 read-tree failed
+			exit $status
+		}
+		EOF
+	) &&
+
+	git push void master &&
+	(
+		cd void &&
+		git diff --quiet &&
+		git diff --cached --quiet &&
+		test $(git -C .. rev-parse HEAD) = $(git rev-parse HEAD)
 	)
 '
 
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