wt-status: read HEAD and ORIG_HEAD via the refdb

We read both the HEAD and ORIG_HEAD references directly from the
filesystem in order to figure out whether we're currently splitting a
commit. If both of the following are true:

  - HEAD points to the same object as "rebase-merge/amend".

  - ORIG_HEAD points to the same object as "rebase-merge/orig-head".

Then we are currently splitting commits.

The current code only works by chance because we only have a single
reference backend implementation. Refactor it to instead read both refs
via the refdb layer so that we'll also be compatible with alternate
reference backends.

There are some subtleties involved here:

  - We pass `RESOLVE_REF_READING` so that a missing ref will cause
    `read_ref_full()` to return an error.

  - We pass `RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE` so that we do not try to resolve
    symrefs. The old code didn't resolve symrefs either, and we only
    ever write object IDs into the refs in "rebase-merge/".

  - In the same spirit we verify that successfully-read refs are not
    symbolic refs.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index 9f45bf6949..da19923981 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -1295,26 +1295,32 @@ static char *read_line_from_git_path(const char *filename)
 static int split_commit_in_progress(struct wt_status *s)
 {
 	int split_in_progress = 0;
-	char *head, *orig_head, *rebase_amend, *rebase_orig_head;
+	struct object_id head_oid, orig_head_oid;
+	char *rebase_amend, *rebase_orig_head;
+	int head_flags, orig_head_flags;
 
 	if ((!s->amend && !s->nowarn && !s->workdir_dirty) ||
 	    !s->branch || strcmp(s->branch, "HEAD"))
 		return 0;
 
-	head = read_line_from_git_path("HEAD");
-	orig_head = read_line_from_git_path("ORIG_HEAD");
+	if (read_ref_full("HEAD", RESOLVE_REF_READING | RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE,
+			  &head_oid, &head_flags) ||
+	    read_ref_full("ORIG_HEAD", RESOLVE_REF_READING | RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE,
+			  &orig_head_oid, &orig_head_flags))
+		return 0;
+	if (head_flags & REF_ISSYMREF || orig_head_flags & REF_ISSYMREF)
+		return 0;
+
 	rebase_amend = read_line_from_git_path("rebase-merge/amend");
 	rebase_orig_head = read_line_from_git_path("rebase-merge/orig-head");
 
-	if (!head || !orig_head || !rebase_amend || !rebase_orig_head)
+	if (!rebase_amend || !rebase_orig_head)
 		; /* fall through, no split in progress */
 	else if (!strcmp(rebase_amend, rebase_orig_head))
-		split_in_progress = !!strcmp(head, rebase_amend);
-	else if (strcmp(orig_head, rebase_orig_head))
+		split_in_progress = !!strcmp(oid_to_hex(&head_oid), rebase_amend);
+	else if (strcmp(oid_to_hex(&orig_head_oid), rebase_orig_head))
 		split_in_progress = 1;
 
-	free(head);
-	free(orig_head);
 	free(rebase_amend);
 	free(rebase_orig_head);