From: Derrick Stolee <redacted>

The normalize_glob_ref() method was introduced in 65516f586b693 (log:
add option to choose which refs to decorate, 2017-11-21) to help with
decoration filters such as --decorate-refs=<filter> and
--decorate-refs-exclude=<filter>. The method has not been used anywhere
else.

At the moment, it is impossible to specify HEAD as a decoration filter
since normalize_glob_ref() prepends "refs/" to the filter if it isn't
already there.

Allow adding HEAD as a decoration filter by allowing the exact string
"HEAD" to not be prepended with "refs/". Add a test in t4202-log.sh that
would previously fail since the HEAD decoration would exist in the
output.

It is sufficient to only cover "HEAD" here and not include other special
refs like REBASE_HEAD. This is because HEAD is the only ref outside of
refs/* that is added to the list of decorations. However, we may want to
special-case these other refs in normalize_glob_ref() in the future.
Leave a NEEDSWORK comment for now.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <redacted>
---
 refs.c         | 11 ++++++++---
 t/t4202-log.sh |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 90bcb271687..3fdfa86a5b9 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c

@@ -455,11 +455,16 @@ void normalize_glob_ref(struct string_list_item *item, const char *prefix,
 	if (*pattern == '/')
 		BUG("pattern must not start with '/'");
 
-	if (prefix) {
+	if (prefix)
 		strbuf_addstr(&normalized_pattern, prefix);
-	}
-	else if (!starts_with(pattern, "refs/"))
+	else if (!starts_with(pattern, "refs/") &&
+		   strcmp(pattern, "HEAD"))
 		strbuf_addstr(&normalized_pattern, "refs/");
+	/*
+	 * NEEDSWORK: Special case other symrefs such as REBASE_HEAD,
+	 * MERGE_HEAD, etc.
+	 */
+
 	strbuf_addstr(&normalized_pattern, pattern);
 	strbuf_strip_suffix(&normalized_pattern, "/");
 

diff --git a/t/t4202-log.sh b/t/t4202-log.sh
index 6e663525582..6b7d8e269f7 100755
--- a/t/t4202-log.sh
+++ b/t/t4202-log.sh

@@ -1025,6 +1025,12 @@ test_expect_success 'decorate-refs and simplify-by-decoration without output' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'decorate-refs-exclude HEAD' '
+	git log --decorate=full --oneline \
+		--decorate-refs-exclude="HEAD" >actual &&
+	! grep HEAD actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'log.decorate config parsing' '
 	git log --oneline --decorate=full >expect.full &&
 	git log --oneline --decorate=short >expect.short &&

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