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, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/archive.c b/archive.c
index fb39706120..0de6048bfc 100644
--- a/archive.c
+++ b/archive.c
@@ -397,10 +397,10 @@ static void parse_treeish_arg(const char **argv,
 		const char *colon = strchrnul(name, ':');
 		int refnamelen = colon - name;
 
-		if (!dwim_ref(name, refnamelen, &oid, &ref))
+		if (!dwim_ref(name, refnamelen, &oid, &ref, 0))
 			die(_("no such ref: %.*s"), refnamelen, name);
 	} else {
-		dwim_ref(name, strlen(name), &oid, &ref);
+		dwim_ref(name, strlen(name), &oid, &ref, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (get_oid(name, &oid))