On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> @@ -951,12 +954,41 @@ static int packed_ref_iterator_advance(struct ref_iterator *ref_iterator)
> &iter->oid, iter->flags))
> continue;
>
> + while (prefix && *prefix) {
> + if (*refname < *prefix)
> + BUG("packed-refs backend yielded reference preceding its prefix");
I just triggered this bug upon a "git pull" in an internal repository:
$ git pull
remote: Enumerating objects: 161255, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (55884/55884), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5518/5518), done.
remote: Total 161255 (delta 54253), reused 50509 (delta 50364),
pack-reused 105371 (from 4)
Receiving objects: 100% (161255/161255), 309.90 MiB | 16.87 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (118048/118048), completed with 13416 local objects.
