From b9d56b5dd9a8819c900725b8618f8bd994a5054f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:09:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] update-ref: fail create operation over stdin if ref already
 exists

Signed-off-by: Aman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 builtin/update-ref.c  |  1 +
 t/t1400-update-ref.sh | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/builtin/update-ref.c b/builtin/update-ref.c
index 1292cfea11..5c208bb1fc 100644
--- a/builtin/update-ref.c
+++ b/builtin/update-ref.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ static void parse_cmd_create(const char *next)
 	struct ref_update *update;
 
 	update = update_alloc();
+	update->have_old = 1;
 
 	if ((next = parse_first_arg(next, &ref)) != NULL && ref.buf[0])
 		update_store_ref_name(update, ref.buf);
diff --git a/t/t1400-update-ref.sh b/t/t1400-update-ref.sh
index 6ffd82fe32..e130c528fe 100755
--- a/t/t1400-update-ref.sh
+++ b/t/t1400-update-ref.sh
@@ -820,7 +820,18 @@ test_expect_success 'stdin -z update ref fails with bad old value' '
 	test_must_fail git rev-parse --verify -q $c
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'stdin -z create ref fails when ref exists' '
+	git update-ref $c $m &&
+	git rev-parse "$c" >expect &&
+	printf $F "create $c" "$m~1" >stdin &&
+	test_must_fail git update-ref -z --stdin <stdin 2>err &&
+	grep "fatal: Cannot lock the ref '"'"'$c'"'"'" err &&
+	git rev-parse "$c" >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'stdin -z create ref fails with bad new value' '
+	git update-ref -d "$c" &&
 	printf $F "create $c" "does-not-exist" >stdin &&
 	test_must_fail git update-ref -z --stdin <stdin 2>err &&
 	grep "fatal: invalid new value for ref $c: does-not-exist" err &&