We use strbuf_branchname() to expand the branch name from the command line, so you can delete the branch given by @{-1}, for example. However, we allow other nonsense like "@", and we do not respect our "-r" flag (so we may end up deleting an oddly-named local ref instead of a remote one).
We can fix this by passing the appropriate "allowed" flag to strbuf_branchname(). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net> --- builtin/branch.c | 5 ++++- t/t3204-branch-name-interpretation.sh | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c index cf0ece55d..291fe90de 100644 --- a/builtin/branch.c +++ b/builtin/branch.c @@ -191,17 +191,20 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds, int ret = 0; int remote_branch = 0; struct strbuf bname = STRBUF_INIT; + unsigned allowed_interpret; switch (kinds) { case FILTER_REFS_REMOTES: fmt = "refs/remotes/%s"; /* For subsequent UI messages */ remote_branch = 1; + allowed_interpret = INTERPRET_BRANCH_REMOTE; force = 1; break; case FILTER_REFS_BRANCHES: fmt = "refs/heads/%s"; + allowed_interpret = INTERPRET_BRANCH_LOCAL; break; default: die(_("cannot use -a with -d")); @@ -216,7 +219,7 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds, char *target = NULL; int flags = 0; - strbuf_branchname(&bname, argv[i], 0); + strbuf_branchname(&bname, argv[i], allowed_interpret); free(name); name = mkpathdup(fmt, bname.buf); diff --git a/t/t3204-branch-name-interpretation.sh b/t/t3204-branch-name-interpretation.sh index 2fe696ba6..c8fec5b8c 100755 --- a/t/t3204-branch-name-interpretation.sh +++ b/t/t3204-branch-name-interpretation.sh @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ test_expect_success 'delete branch via remote @{upstream}' ' # Note that we create two oddly named local branches here. We want to make # sure that we do not accidentally delete either of them, even if # shorten_unambiguous_ref() tweaks the name to avoid ambiguity. -test_expect_failure 'delete @{upstream} expansion matches -r option' ' +test_expect_success 'delete @{upstream} expansion matches -r option' ' git update-ref refs/remotes/origin/remote-del two && git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/remote-del && git update-ref refs/heads/origin/remote-del two && @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ test_expect_failure 'create branch named "@"' ' expect_branch refs/heads/@ one ' -test_expect_failure 'delete branch named "@"' ' +test_expect_success 'delete branch named "@"' ' git update-ref refs/heads/@ two && git branch -D @ && expect_deleted refs/heads/@ -- 2.12.0.359.gd4c8c42e9