Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: fix unadvertised requests validation

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 02:07:12PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

We expect whoever creates the "sought" list to fill in the name and sha1
as appropriate. If that is not happening in some code path, then yeah,
filter_refs() will not work as intended. But I think the solution there
would be to fix the caller to set up the "struct ref" more completely.

Gabriel, did this come from a bug you noticed in practice, or was it
just an intended cleanup?

I double-checked that the code for git-fetch does so. It's in
get_fetch_map()

    if (refspec->exact_sha1) {
	    ref_map = alloc_ref(name);
	    get_oid_hex(name, &ref_map->old_oid);
    } else ...

So we should always have old_oid filled in already, and there is no need
to do so in filter_refs() (and in fact it is wrong, for the degenerate
example I gave earlier).

-Peff