upload-pack: strip namespace from symref data

Since 7171d8c (upload-pack: send symbolic ref information as
capability, 2013-09-17), we've sent cloning and fetching clients special
information about which branch HEAD is pointing to, so that they don't
have to guess based on matching up commit ids.

However, this feature has never worked properly with the GIT_NAMESPACE
feature.  Because upload-pack uses head_ref_namespaced(find_symref), we
do find and report on refs/namespaces/foo/HEAD instead of the actual
HEAD of the repo. This makes sense, since the branch pointed to by the
top-level HEAD may not be advertised at all. But we do two things wrong:

  1. We report the full name refs/namespaces/foo/HEAD, instead of just
     HEAD. Meaning no client is going to bother doing anything with that
     symref, since we're not otherwise advertising it.

  2. We report the symref destination using its full name (e.g.,
     refs/namespaces/foo/refs/heads/master). That's similarly useless to
     the client, who only saw "refs/heads/master" in the advertisement.

We should be stripping the namespace prefix off of both places (which
this patch fixes).

Likely nobody noticed because we tend to do the right thing anyway. Bug
(1) means that we said nothing about HEAD (just refs/namespace/foo/HEAD).
And so the client half of the code, from a45b5f0 (connect: annotate
refs with their symref information in get_remote_head(), 2013-09-17),
does not annotate HEAD, and we use the fallback in guess_remote_head(),
matching refs by object id. Which is usually right. It only falls down
in ambiguous cases, like the one laid out in the included test.

This also means that we don't have to worry about breaking anybody who
was putting pre-stripped names into their namespace symrefs when we fix
bug (2). Because of bug (1), nobody would have been using the symref we
advertised in the first place (not to mention that those symrefs would
have appeared broken for any non-namespaced access).

Note that we have separate fixes here for the v0 and v2 protocols. The
symref advertisement moved in v2 to be a part of the ls-refs command.
This actually gets part (1) right, since the symref annotation
piggy-backs on the existing ref advertisement, which is properly
stripped. But it still needs a fix for part (2). The included tests
cover both protocols.

Reported-by: Bryan Turner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: peff

ls-refs.c

@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static int send_ref(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid,
 		if (!symref_target)
 			die("'%s' is a symref but it is not?", refname);
 
-		strbuf_addf(&refline, " symref-target:%s", symref_target);
+		strbuf_addf(&refline, " symref-target:%s",
+			    strip_namespace(symref_target));
 	}
 
 	if (data->peel) {

t/t5509-fetch-push-namespaces.sh

@@ -124,4 +124,32 @@ test_expect_success 'try to update a hidden full ref' '
 	test_must_fail git -C original push pushee-namespaced master
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'set up ambiguous HEAD' '
+	git init ambiguous &&
+	(
+		cd ambiguous &&
+		git commit --allow-empty -m foo &&
+		git update-ref refs/namespaces/ns/refs/heads/one HEAD &&
+		git update-ref refs/namespaces/ns/refs/heads/two HEAD &&
+		git symbolic-ref refs/namespaces/ns/HEAD \
+			refs/namespaces/ns/refs/heads/two
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'clone chooses correct HEAD (v0)' '
+	GIT_NAMESPACE=ns git -c protocol.version=0 \
+		clone ambiguous ambiguous-v0 &&
+	echo refs/heads/two >expect &&
+	git -C ambiguous-v0 symbolic-ref HEAD >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'clone chooses correct HEAD (v2)' '
+	GIT_NAMESPACE=ns git -c protocol.version=2 \
+		clone ambiguous ambiguous-v2 &&
+	echo refs/heads/two >expect &&
+	git -C ambiguous-v2 symbolic-ref HEAD >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done

upload-pack.c

@@ -1032,8 +1032,8 @@ static int find_symref(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid,
 	symref_target = resolve_ref_unsafe(refname, 0, NULL, &flag);
 	if (!symref_target || (flag & REF_ISSYMREF) == 0)
 		die("'%s' is a symref but it is not?", refname);
-	item = string_list_append(cb_data, refname);
-	item->util = xstrdup(symref_target);
+	item = string_list_append(cb_data, strip_namespace(refname));
+	item->util = xstrdup(strip_namespace(symref_target));
 	return 0;
 }