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, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/sha1-name.c b/sha1-name.c
index a7a9de66c4..0b23b86ceb 100644
--- a/sha1-name.c
+++ b/sha1-name.c
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static int get_oid_basic(struct repository *r, const char *str, int len,
 
 	if (len == r->hash_algo->hexsz && !get_oid_hex(str, oid)) {
 		if (warn_ambiguous_refs && warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity) {
-			refs_found = repo_dwim_ref(r, str, len, &tmp_oid, &real_ref);
+			refs_found = repo_dwim_ref(r, str, len, &tmp_oid, &real_ref, 0);
 			if (refs_found > 0) {
 				warning(warn_msg, len, str);
 				if (advice_object_name_warning)
@@ -860,11 +860,11 @@ static int get_oid_basic(struct repository *r, const char *str, int len,
 
 	if (!len && reflog_len)
 		/* allow "@{...}" to mean the current branch reflog */
-		refs_found = repo_dwim_ref(r, "HEAD", 4, oid, &real_ref);
+		refs_found = repo_dwim_ref(r, "HEAD", 4, oid, &real_ref, 0);
 	else if (reflog_len)
 		refs_found = repo_dwim_log(r, str, len, oid, &real_ref);
 	else
-		refs_found = repo_dwim_ref(r, str, len, oid, &real_ref);
+		refs_found = repo_dwim_ref(r, str, len, oid, &real_ref, 0);
 
 	if (!refs_found)
 		return -1;
@@ -1496,8 +1496,14 @@ static int interpret_branch_mark(struct repository *r,
 		branch = branch_get(NULL);
 
 	value = get_data(branch, &err);
-	if (!value)
-		die("%s", err.buf);
+	if (!value) {
+		if (options->nonfatal_dangling_mark) {
+			strbuf_release(&err);
+			return -1;
+		} else {
+			die("%s", err.buf);
+		}
+	}
 
 	if (!branch_interpret_allowed(value, options->allowed))
 		return -1;