Currently, a loose reference is deleted even before locking the
`packed-refs` file, let alone deleting any packed version of the
reference. This leads to two problems, demonstrated by two new tests:
* While a reference is being deleted, other processes might see the
old, packed value of the reference for a moment before the packed
version is deleted. Normally this would be hard to observe, but we
can prolong the window by locking the `packed-refs` file externally
before running `update-ref`, then unlocking it before `update-ref`'s
attempt to acquire the lock times out.
* If the `packed-refs` file is locked so long that `update-ref` fails
to lock it, then the reference can be left permanently in the
incorrect state described in the previous point.
In a moment, both problems will be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To aid the effort, extract a new function, check_old_oid(), and use it
in the two places where the read value of the reference has to be
checked against update->old_sha1.
Update tests to reflect the improvements.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of the error messages will be improved in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tests already set a variable called prefix and passed its value as
the first argument to this function. The old argument handling was
overwriting the global variable with its same value rather than creating
a local variable.
So change test_update_rejected to refer to the global variable rather
than taking the prefix as an argument.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I want to broaden the scope of this test file, so rename it accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
