commit 2d463f36e73eea85e832bdaff7005634fbdc94e7
from: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
date: Mon Aug 12 22:42:47 2019 UTC

test behaviour when 'got ref -s' is given a non-reference target

commit - d1c1ae5fa698c48d70eb16cef11bb3710221ea88
commit + 2d463f36e73eea85e832bdaff7005634fbdc94e7
blob - 3774051198b40f4ceaef773bcd650eaba78d8ead
blob + 879c3950c6ab68af42c59df399f05fd5eb5d8756
--- regress/cmdline/ref.sh
+++ regress/cmdline/ref.sh
@@ -75,8 +75,28 @@ function test_ref_create {
 	if [ "$ret" != "0" ]; then
 		echo "git checkout command failed unexpectedly"
 		test_done "$testroot" "$ret"
+		return 1
 	fi
 
+	# Attempt to create a symbolic ref pointing at a non-reference
+	(cd $testroot/wt && got ref -s refs/heads/symbolicref $commit_id \
+		2> $testroot/stderr)
+	ret="$?"
+	if [ "$ret" == "0" ]; then
+		echo "git ref command succeeded unexpectedly"
+		test_done "$testroot" "1"
+		return 1
+	fi
+
+	echo "got: reference $commit_id not found" > $testroot/stderr.expected
+	cmp -s $testroot/stderr $testroot/stderr.expected
+	ret="$?"
+	if [ "$ret" != "0" ]; then
+		diff -u $testroot/stderr.expected $testroot/stderr
+		test_done "$testroot" "$ret"
+		return 1
+	fi
+
 	got ref -r $testroot/repo -l > $testroot/stdout
 	echo "HEAD: refs/heads/symbolicref" > $testroot/stdout.expected
 	echo -n "refs/got/worktree/base-" >> $testroot/stdout.expected