| commit | f24c30e0b6b13078d8fc7cd71b9989d28fd76610 | [log] [tgz] |
|---|---|---|
| author | Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> | Tue Sep 01 15:28:09 2020 -0700 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Wed Sep 02 14:39:25 2020 -0700 |
| tree | 9b013a5a9bede34aacc64ccdb958ecb6505d826c | |
| parent | ec06b05568bb9dbb7333a5974b4512db18395674 [diff] |
wt-status: tolerate dangling marks
When a user checks out the upstream branch of HEAD, the upstream branch
not being a local branch, and then runs "git status", like this:
git clone $URL client
cd client
git checkout @{u}
git status
no status is printed, but instead an error message:
fatal: HEAD does not point to a branch
(This error message when running "git branch" persists even after
checking out other things - it only stops after checking out a branch.)
This is because "git status" reads the reflog when determining the "HEAD
detached" message, and thus attempts to DWIM "@{u}", but that doesn't
work because HEAD no longer points to a branch.
Therefore, when calculating the status of a worktree, tolerate dangling
marks. This is done by adding an additional parameter to
dwim_ref() and repo_dwim_ref().
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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