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authorBryce Kwon <bryce@brycekwon.com>
committerBryce Kwon <bryce@brycekwon.com>
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Answer dumb-clone HEAD from the ref store
A reftable repository keeps only a placeholder in its HEAD file, so a dumb clone was told HEAD named refs/heads/.invalid and checked nothing out. HEAD is now answered the way git's http-backend answers it.
Diffstat (limited to 'source/ui-clone.c')
-rw-r--r--source/ui-clone.c32
1 file changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/source/ui-clone.c b/source/ui-clone.c
index fcab846..610aaa6 100644
--- a/source/ui-clone.c
+++ b/source/ui-clone.c
@@ -186,11 +186,33 @@ err:
cgit_print_error_page(400, "Bad Request", "Bad request");
}
+/*
+ * HEAD is answered from the ref store, the way git's own http-backend answers
+ * it, rather than read off the disk, where a reftable repository keeps only a
+ * placeholder. The target need not exist yet, so an empty repository still
+ * names the branch a first push will create.
+ */
void cgit_clone_head(void)
{
- char *path;
-
- path = repo_git_path(the_repository, "HEAD");
- send_file(path);
- free(path);
+ struct strbuf head = STRBUF_INIT;
+ struct object_id oid;
+ const char *target;
+ int flags;
+
+ target = refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(get_main_ref_store(the_repository), "HEAD", 0, &oid,
+ &flags);
+ if (!target) {
+ cgit_print_error_page(404, "Not Found", "Not found");
+ return;
+ }
+ if (flags & REF_ISSYMREF)
+ strbuf_addf(&head, "ref: %s\n", target);
+ else
+ strbuf_addf(&head, "%s\n", oid_to_hex(&oid));
+ ctx.page.mimetype = "text/plain";
+ ctx.page.filename = "HEAD";
+ ctx.page.size = head.len;
+ cgit_print_http_headers();
+ html_raw(head.buf, head.len);
+ strbuf_release(&head);
}