gc: demonstrate failure with stale remote HEAD
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/t/t6500-gc.sh b/t/t6500-gc.sh
index 63194d8..ed22dcc 100755
--- a/t/t6500-gc.sh
+++ b/t/t6500-gc.sh
@@ -30,4 +30,17 @@
test_i18ngrep "[Uu]sage" broken/usage
'
+test_expect_failure 'gc is not aborted due to a stale symref' '
+ git init remote &&
+ (
+ cd remote &&
+ test_commit initial &&
+ git clone . ../client &&
+ git branch -m develop &&
+ cd ../client &&
+ git fetch --prune &&
+ git gc
+ )
+'
+
test_done
