tree 1f9ed0e085560293799a223b9e1018681588f483
parent b00447038a50e0923b12cb0bc3c28f6b842a7f54
author Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com> 1642106294 -0500
committer Bryan Mills <bcmills@google.com> 1643906546 +0000

cmd/go/internal/modfetch: do not short-circuit canonical versions

Since at least CL 121857, the conversion logic in
(*modfetch).codeRepo.Stat has had a short-circuit to use the version
requested by the caller if it successfully resolves and is already
canonical.

However, we should not use that version if it refers to a branch
instead of a tag, because branches (unlike tags) usually do not refer
to a single, stable release: a branch named "v1.0.0" may be for the
development of the v1.0.0 release, or for the development of patches
based on v1.0.0, but only one commit (perhaps at the end of that
branch — but possibly not even written yet!) can be that specific
version.

We already have some logic to prefer tags that are semver-equivalent
to the version requested by the caller. That more general case
suffices for exact equality too — so we can eliminate the
special-case, fixing the bug and (happily!) also somewhat simplifying
the code.

Fixes #35671
Updates #41512

Change-Id: I2fd290190b8a99a580deec7e26d15659b58a50b0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/378400
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