From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: gotd: can't append to protected branch
To: Martijn van Duren <openbsd+got@list.imperialat.at>, gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 11:47:14 +0200

On Sat, Jul 05, 2025 at 10:55:47AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 02:00:12PM +0200, Martijn van Duren wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > For libopensmtpd[0] I tried to merge the mdoc_lb branch into main, but
> > when trying to send it to upstream I'm greeted with a "reference is
> > protected". When doing some printf debugging I found myself in
> > protect_refs_from_moving(), which is only called from a single place,
> > when a modification is requested without a packfile.
> > So it appears I've hit another issue with protected branches and
> > modifications. :-)
> 
> Thanks for reporting this! The following patch fixes this issue:

This fix has now been committed.