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setup: fix reinit of repos with incompatible GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT

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The GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT environment variable can be set to influence
the default ref format that new repostiories shall be initialized with.
While this is the expected behaviour when creating a new repository, it
is not when reinitializing a repository: we should retain the ref format
currently used by it in that case.

This doesn't work correctly right now:

    $ git init --ref-format=files repo
    Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/repo/.git/
    $ GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable git init repo
    fatal: could not open '/tmp/repo/.git/refs/heads' for writing: Is a directory

Instead of retaining the current ref format, the reinitialization tries
to reinitialize the repository with the different format. This action
fails when git-init(1) tries to write the ".git/refs/heads" stub, which
in the context of the reftable backend is always written as a file so
that we can detect clients which inadvertently try to access the repo
with the wrong ref format. Seems like the protection mechanism works for
this case, as well.

Fix the issue by ignoring the environment variable in case the repo has
already been initialized with a ref storage format.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Patrick Steinhardt
2025-01-30 17:24:18 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 150c31bf88
commit 796fda3f78
2 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -2534,7 +2534,9 @@ static void repository_format_configure(struct repository_format *repo_fmt,
ref_format = ref_storage_format_by_name(env);
if (ref_format == REF_STORAGE_FORMAT_UNKNOWN)
die(_("unknown ref storage format '%s'"), env);
repo_fmt->ref_storage_format = ref_format;
if (repo_fmt->version < 0 ||
repo_fmt->ref_storage_format == REF_STORAGE_FORMAT_UNKNOWN)
repo_fmt->ref_storage_format = ref_format;
} else if (cfg.ref_format != REF_STORAGE_FORMAT_UNKNOWN) {
repo_fmt->ref_storage_format = cfg.ref_format;
}