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, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 7128895c3a..9b5a34cfd7 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ struct commit *get_fork_point(const char *refname, struct commit *commit)
 	struct commit *ret = NULL;
 	char *full_refname;
 
-	switch (dwim_ref(refname, strlen(refname), &oid, &full_refname)) {
+	switch (dwim_ref(refname, strlen(refname), &oid, &full_refname, 0)) {
 	case 0:
 		die("No such ref: '%s'", refname);
 	case 1: