rebase -i: check labels and refs when parsing todo list

Check that the argument to the "label" and "update-ref" commands is a
valid refname when the todo list is parsed rather than waiting until the
command is executed. This means that the user can deal with any errors
at the beginning of the rebase rather than having it stop halfway
through due to a typo in a label name. The "update-ref" command is
changed to reject single level refs as it is all to easy to type
"update-ref branch" which is incorrect rather than "update-ref
refs/heads/branch"

Note that it is not straight forward to check the arguments to "reset"
and "merge" commands as they may be any revision, not just a refname and
we do not have an equivalent of check_refname_format() for revisions.

Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index fb23f734ad..c9ca83204b 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -2487,6 +2487,34 @@ static int is_command(enum todo_command command, const char **bol)
 		 (*bol = p));
 }
 
+static int check_label_or_ref_arg(enum todo_command command, const char *arg)
+{
+	switch (command) {
+	case TODO_LABEL:
+		/*
+		 * '#' is not a valid label as the merge command uses it to
+		 * separate merge parents from the commit subject.
+		 */
+		if (!strcmp(arg, "#") ||
+		    check_refname_format(arg, REFNAME_ALLOW_ONELEVEL))
+			return error(_("'%s' is not a valid label"), arg);
+		break;
+
+	case TODO_UPDATE_REF:
+		if (check_refname_format(arg, REFNAME_ALLOW_ONELEVEL))
+			return error(_("'%s' is not a valid refname"), arg);
+		if (check_refname_format(arg, 0))
+			return error(_("update-ref requires a fully qualified "
+				       "refname e.g. refs/heads/%s"), arg);
+		break;
+
+	default:
+		BUG("unexpected todo_command");
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int parse_insn_line(struct repository *r, struct todo_item *item,
 			   const char *buf, const char *bol, char *eol)
 {
@@ -2535,10 +2563,19 @@ static int parse_insn_line(struct repository *r, struct todo_item *item,
 
 	if (item->command == TODO_EXEC || item->command == TODO_LABEL ||
 	    item->command == TODO_RESET || item->command == TODO_UPDATE_REF) {
+		int ret = 0;
+
 		item->commit = NULL;
 		item->arg_offset = bol - buf;
 		item->arg_len = (int)(eol - bol);
-		return 0;
+		if (item->command == TODO_LABEL ||
+		    item->command == TODO_UPDATE_REF) {
+			saved = *eol;
+			*eol = '\0';
+			ret = check_label_or_ref_arg(item->command, bol);
+			*eol = saved;
+		}
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	if (item->command == TODO_FIXUP) {