[PATCH] dim: Disallow remote branch deletions with 'dim push'

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, 01 Jun 2023, Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit at intel.com> wrote:
> An inadvertent 'dim push -d' can delete remote branches. Disallow such
> remote branch deletions.

Please see https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/maintainer-tools/CONTRIBUTING.html

>
> Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit at intel.com>
> ---
>  dim | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/dim b/dim
> index 126568e..e5899e6 100755
> --- a/dim
> +++ b/dim
> @@ -1029,6 +1029,12 @@ function dim_push_branch
>  		fi
>  	fi
>  
> +	# Disallow remote branch deletions, say with 'dim push -d'
> +	if [[ "$@" == *"-d"* ]]; then
> +		echoerr "Attempt to delete remote branch, aborting."
> +		return 1
> +	fi

I'm working on adding a server side git pre-receive hook to tackle this
too, but I guess there's no harm in adding this. The choice of -d for
dry run was unfortunate, and this helps with the 'dim -d foo' vs 'dim
foo -d' mistake.

BR,
Jani.


> +
>  	git_push $remote $branch "$@"
>  
>  	update_linux_next $branch drm-intel-next drm-intel-next-fixes drm-intel-fixes

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center