push: do not turn --delete '' into a matching push

When we added a syntax sugar "git push remote --delete <ref>" to "git push" as a synonym to the canonical "git push remote :<ref>" syntax at f517f1f2 (builtin-push: add --delete as syntactic sugar for :foo, 2009-12-30), we weren't careful enough to make sure that <ref> is not empty. Blindly rewriting "--delete <ref>" to ":<ref>" means that an empty string <ref> results in refspec ":", which is the syntax to ask for "matching" push that does not delete anything. Worse yet, if there were matching refs that can be fast-forwarded, they would have been published prematurely, even if the user feels that they are not ready yet to be pushed out, which would be a real disaster. Noticed-by: Tilman Vogel <tilman.vogel@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Feb 23, 2021 at 15:13 UTC 20e416409fc2bc260faf65a0fc74927ed0d3ca12
2 files changed +6 -1
builtin/push.c
+1 -1
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static void set_refspecs(const char **refs, int nr, const char *repo)
115 else
116 refspec_appendf(&rs, "refs/tags/%s", ref);
117 } else if (deleterefs) {
118 - if (strchr(ref, ':'))
118 + if (strchr(ref, ':') || !*ref)
119 die(_("--delete only accepts plain target ref names"));
120 refspec_appendf(&rs, ":%s", ref);
121 } else if (!strchr(ref, ':')) {
t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
+5
@@ -818,6 +818,11 @@ test_expect_success 'push --delete refuses src:dest refspecs' '
818 test_must_fail git push testrepo --delete master:foo
819 '
820
821 +test_expect_success 'push --delete refuses empty string' '
822 + mk_test testrepo heads/master &&
823 + test_must_fail git push testrepo --delete ""
824 +'
825 +
826 test_expect_success 'warn on push to HEAD of non-bare repository' '
827 mk_test testrepo heads/master &&
828 (