DeleteBranch/DeleteBranches: Disallow deletion of HEAD to prevent NPE

Attempting to delete HEAD fails with a NullPointerException [1]. This is
because 'HEAD' gets prefixed with 'refs/heads/' and then the ref is not
found.

We may consider to support deleting HEAD, but that's outside the scope
of this change. E.g. deleting HEAD may rather be separate REST endpoint
that lives next to SetHead since setting HEAD requires a different
permission than deleting a ref.

[1]
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.google.gerrit.server.restapi.project.DeleteRef.deleteSingleRef(DeleteRef.java:122)
        at com.google.gerrit.server.restapi.project.DeleteBranch.apply(DeleteBranch.java:59)
        at com.google.gerrit.server.restapi.project.DeleteBranch.apply(DeleteBranch.java:34)
        at com.google.gerrit.httpd.restapi.RestApiServlet.lambda$invokeRestModifyViewWithRetry$4(RestApiServlet.java:740)
        at com.github.rholder.retry.AttemptTimeLimiters$NoAttemptTimeLimit.call(AttemptTimeLimiters.java:78)
        at com.github.rholder.retry.Retryer.call(Retryer.java:160)
        at com.google.gerrit.server.update.RetryHelper.executeWithTimeoutCount(RetryHelper.java:417)
        at com.google.gerrit.server.update.RetryHelper.executeWithAttemptAndTimeoutCount(RetryHelper.java:368)
        at com.google.gerrit.server.update.RetryHelper.execute(RetryHelper.java:271)
        at com.google.gerrit.httpd.restapi.RestApiServlet.invokeRestEndpointWithRetry(RestApiServlet.java:820)
        at com.google.gerrit.httpd.restapi.RestApiServlet.invokeRestModifyViewWithRetry(RestApiServlet.java:735)
        at com.google.gerrit.httpd.restapi.RestApiServlet.service(RestApiServlet.java:511)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        ...

Change-Id: I44c23f4553f05300b7c79bf257b417ec0b496b09
Signed-off-by: Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com>
(cherry picked from commit 40e1ab1bf084f0b7da66e84b26a84cc4604cbeeb)
4 files changed
tree: 8f696714065a4f954d8ffd14aaeeb5fca5b06ad5
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