From bbd445d5efd415d43ac6102a3e9541b9ac4f0329 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 11:32:40 +0900 Subject: tag: "git tag" refuses to use HEAD as a tagname MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Even though the plumbing level allows you to create refs/tags/HEAD and refs/heads/HEAD, doing so makes it confusing within the context of the UI Git Porcelain commands provides. Just like we prevent a branch from getting called "HEAD" at the Porcelain layer (i.e. "git branch" command), teach "git tag" to refuse to create a tag "HEAD". With a few new tests, we make sure that - "git tag HEAD" and "git tag -a HEAD" are rejected - "git update-ref refs/tags/HEAD" is still allowed (this is a deliberate design decision to allow others to create their own UI on top of Git infrastructure that may be different from our UI). - "git tag -d HEAD" can remove refs/tags/HEAD to recover from an mistake. Helped-by: Jeff King Helped-by: Rubén Justo Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- refs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'refs.c') diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c index a24bfe3845..01ef2a3093 100644 --- a/refs.c +++ b/refs.c @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ int check_branch_ref(struct strbuf *sb, const char *name) int check_tag_ref(struct strbuf *sb, const char *name) { - if (name[0] == '-') + if (name[0] == '-' || !strcmp(name, "HEAD")) return -1; strbuf_reset(sb); -- cgit v1.3