replay: find *onto only after testing for ref name

We are about to make `peel_committish` die when it cannot find
a commit-ish instead of returning `NULL`. But that would make e.g.
`git replay --advance=refs/non-existent` die with a less descriptive
error message; the highest-level error message is that the name does
not exist as a ref, not that we cannot find a commit-ish based on
the name.

Let’s try to find the ref and only after that try to peel to
as a commit-ish.

Also add a regression test to protect this error order from future
modifications.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Kristoffer Haugsbakk 2026-01-05 20:53:18 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 76eab50f75
commit 17b7965a03
2 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ static void set_up_replay_mode(struct repository *repo,
if (!*advance_name)
BUG("expected either onto_name or *advance_name in this function");
*onto = peel_committish(repo, *advance_name);
if (repo_dwim_ref(repo, *advance_name, strlen(*advance_name),
&oid, &fullname, 0) == 1) {
free(*advance_name);
@ -200,6 +199,7 @@ static void set_up_replay_mode(struct repository *repo,
} else {
die(_("argument to --advance must be a reference"));
}
*onto = peel_committish(repo, *advance_name);
if (rinfo.positive_refexprs > 1)
die(_("cannot advance target with multiple sources because ordering would be ill-defined"));
}

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@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ test_expect_success 'setup bare' '
git clone --bare . bare
'
test_expect_success 'argument to --advance must be a reference' '
echo "fatal: argument to --advance must be a reference" >expect &&
oid=$(git rev-parse main) &&
test_must_fail git replay --advance=$oid topic1..topic2 2>actual &&
test_cmp expect actual
'
test_expect_success 'using replay to rebase two branches, one on top of other' '
git replay --ref-action=print --onto main topic1..topic2 >result &&