[PATCH 1/2] checkout,clone: check return value of create_symref

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

It's unlikely that we would fail to create or update a
symbolic ref (especially HEAD), but if we do, we should
notice and complain. Note that there's no need to give more
details in our error message; create_symref will already
have done so.

While we're here, let's also fix a minor memory leak in
clone.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
This patch could go to maint. I don't know if it's worth the trouble. I
was unable to figure out a way to trigger this reliably (hence no
tests). The two ways I considered were:

  - "chmod -w .git", but it results in a die() already

  - the bug I'm fixing in 2/2; but we don't want to rely on that in our
    test suite, since I'm about to fix it. :-/

 builtin/checkout.c |  3 ++-
 builtin/clone.c    | 11 +++++++----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index e8110a9..5af84a3 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -661,7 +661,8 @@ static void update_refs_for_switch(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
 			describe_detached_head(_("HEAD is now at"), new->commit);
 		}
 	} else if (new->path) {	/* Switch branches. */
-		create_symref("HEAD", new->path, msg.buf);
+		if (create_symref("HEAD", new->path, msg.buf) < 0)
+			die("unable to update HEAD");
 		if (!opts->quiet) {
 			if (old->path && !strcmp(new->path, old->path)) {
 				if (opts->new_branch_force)
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index a0b3cd9..a7c8def 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -636,9 +636,11 @@ static void update_remote_refs(const struct ref *refs,
 		struct strbuf head_ref = STRBUF_INIT;
 		strbuf_addstr(&head_ref, branch_top);
 		strbuf_addstr(&head_ref, "HEAD");
-		create_symref(head_ref.buf,
-			      remote_head_points_at->peer_ref->name,
-			      msg);
+		if (create_symref(head_ref.buf,
+				  remote_head_points_at->peer_ref->name,
+				  msg) < 0)
+			die("unable to update %s", head_ref.buf);
+		strbuf_release(&head_ref);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -648,7 +650,8 @@ static void update_head(const struct ref *our, const struct ref *remote,
 	const char *head;
 	if (our && skip_prefix(our->name, "refs/heads/", &head)) {
 		/* Local default branch link */
-		create_symref("HEAD", our->name, NULL);
+		if (create_symref("HEAD", our->name, NULL) < 0)
+			die("unable to update HEAD");
 		if (!option_bare) {
 			update_ref(msg, "HEAD", our->old_oid.hash, NULL, 0,
 				   UPDATE_REFS_DIE_ON_ERR);
-- 
2.7.0.368.g04bc9ee