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>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index e107919..ae27afc 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -598,10 +598,13 @@ const char *git_default_branch_name(void)
  * to name a branch.
  */
 static char *substitute_branch_name(struct repository *r,
-				    const char **string, int *len)
+				    const char **string, int *len,
+				    int nonfatal_dangling_mark)
 {
 	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
-	struct interpret_branch_name_options options = { 0 } ;
+	struct interpret_branch_name_options options = {
+		.nonfatal_dangling_mark = nonfatal_dangling_mark
+	};
 	int ret = repo_interpret_branch_name(r, *string, *len, &buf, &options);
 
 	if (ret == *len) {
@@ -615,9 +618,10 @@ static char *substitute_branch_name(struct repository *r,
 }
 
 int repo_dwim_ref(struct repository *r, const char *str, int len,
-		  struct object_id *oid, char **ref)
+		  struct object_id *oid, char **ref, int nonfatal_dangling_mark)
 {
-	char *last_branch = substitute_branch_name(r, &str, &len);
+	char *last_branch = substitute_branch_name(r, &str, &len,
+						   nonfatal_dangling_mark);
 	int   refs_found  = expand_ref(r, str, len, oid, ref);
 	free(last_branch);
 	return refs_found;
@@ -661,7 +665,7 @@ int repo_dwim_log(struct repository *r, const char *str, int len,
 		  struct object_id *oid, char **log)
 {
 	struct ref_store *refs = get_main_ref_store(r);
-	char *last_branch = substitute_branch_name(r, &str, &len);
+	char *last_branch = substitute_branch_name(r, &str, &len, 0);
 	const char **p;
 	int logs_found = 0;
 	struct strbuf path = STRBUF_INIT;