Re: [PATCH RESEND] branch: allow deleting dangling branches with --force

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 11:37 PM Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

+test_expect_success 'branch --delete --force removes dangling branch' '
+     test_when_finished "rm -f .git/refs/heads/dangling" &&
+     echo $ZERO_OID >.git/refs/heads/dangling &&
+     git branch --delete --force dangling &&
+     test_path_is_missing .git/refs/heads/dangling
+'

This goes against the spirit of the series merged at c9780bb2 (Merge
branch 'hn/prep-tests-for-reftable', 2021-07-13).

Can we creat the dangling ref and test the lack of "dangling" ref in
the end in a less transparent way?

agreed. Try the ref-store test-helper's update-ref command?


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