push: do not turn --delete '' into a matching push
authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:13:32 +0000 (15:13 -0800)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:19:34 +0000 (15:19 -0800)
commit20e416409fc2bc260faf65a0fc74927ed0d3ca12
treea8012d82b6ea04b43bfb95c04439a7aa01e386bf
parent898f80736c75878acc02dc55672317fcc0e0a5a6
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>
builtin/push.c
t/t5516-fetch-push.sh