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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: jonathantanmy

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))

branch.c

@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ void create_branch(struct repository *r,
 		die(_("Not a valid object name: '%s'."), start_name);
 	}
 
-	switch (dwim_ref(start_name, strlen(start_name), &oid, &real_ref)) {
+	switch (dwim_ref(start_name, strlen(start_name), &oid, &real_ref, 0)) {
 	case 0:
 		/* Not branching from any existing branch */
 		if (explicit_tracking)

builtin/checkout.c

@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ static void setup_branch_path(struct branch_info *branch)
 	 * If this is a ref, resolve it; otherwise, look up the OID for our
 	 * expression.  Failure here is okay.
 	 */
-	if (!dwim_ref(branch->name, strlen(branch->name), &branch->oid, &branch->refname))
+	if (!dwim_ref(branch->name, strlen(branch->name), &branch->oid, &branch->refname, 0))
 		repo_get_oid_committish(the_repository, branch->name, &branch->oid);
 
 	strbuf_branchname(&buf, branch->name, INTERPRET_BRANCH_LOCAL);
@@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ static void die_expecting_a_branch(const struct branch_info *branch_info)
 	struct object_id oid;
 	char *to_free;
 
-	if (dwim_ref(branch_info->name, strlen(branch_info->name), &oid, &to_free) == 1) {
+	if (dwim_ref(branch_info->name, strlen(branch_info->name), &oid, &to_free, 0) == 1) {
 		const char *ref = to_free;
 
 		if (skip_prefix(ref, "refs/tags/", &ref))

builtin/fast-export.c

@@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ static void get_tags_and_duplicates(struct rev_cmdline_info *info)
 		if (e->flags & UNINTERESTING)
 			continue;
 
-		if (dwim_ref(e->name, strlen(e->name), &oid, &full_name) != 1)
+		if (dwim_ref(e->name, strlen(e->name), &oid, &full_name, 0) != 1)
 			continue;
 
 		if (refspecs.nr) {

builtin/log.c

@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ static char *find_branch_name(struct rev_info *rev)
 		return NULL;
 	ref = rev->cmdline.rev[positive].name;
 	tip_oid = &rev->cmdline.rev[positive].item->oid;
-	if (dwim_ref(ref, strlen(ref), &branch_oid, &full_ref) &&
+	if (dwim_ref(ref, strlen(ref), &branch_oid, &full_ref, 0) &&
 	    skip_prefix(full_ref, "refs/heads/", &v) &&
 	    oideq(tip_oid, &branch_oid))
 		branch = xstrdup(v);

builtin/merge.c

@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ static void merge_name(const char *remote, struct strbuf *msg)
 	if (!remote_head)
 		die(_("'%s' does not point to a commit"), remote);
 
-	if (dwim_ref(remote, strlen(remote), &branch_head, &found_ref) > 0) {
+	if (dwim_ref(remote, strlen(remote), &branch_head, &found_ref, 0) > 0) {
 		if (starts_with(found_ref, "refs/heads/")) {
 			strbuf_addf(msg, "%s\t\tbranch '%s' of .\n",
 				    oid_to_hex(&branch_head), remote);

builtin/reset.c

@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			char *ref = NULL;
 			int err;
 
-			dwim_ref(rev, strlen(rev), &dummy, &ref);
+			dwim_ref(rev, strlen(rev), &dummy, &ref, 0);
 			if (ref && !starts_with(ref, "refs/"))
 				ref = NULL;
 

builtin/rev-parse.c

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static void show_rev(int type, const struct object_id *oid, const char *name)
 			struct object_id discard;
 			char *full;
 
-			switch (dwim_ref(name, strlen(name), &discard, &full)) {
+			switch (dwim_ref(name, strlen(name), &discard, &full, 0)) {
 			case 0:
 				/*
 				 * Not found -- not a ref.  We could

builtin/show-branch.c

@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ int cmd_show_branch(int ac, const char **av, const char *prefix)
 			die(Q_("only %d entry can be shown at one time.",
 			       "only %d entries can be shown at one time.",
 			       MAX_REVS), MAX_REVS);
-		if (!dwim_ref(*av, strlen(*av), &oid, &ref))
+		if (!dwim_ref(*av, strlen(*av), &oid, &ref, 0))
 			die(_("no such ref %s"), *av);
 
 		/* Has the base been specified? */

builtin/stash.c

@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static int get_stash_info(struct stash_info *info, int argc, const char **argv)
 	end_of_rev = strchrnul(revision, '@');
 	strbuf_add(&symbolic, revision, end_of_rev - revision);
 
-	ret = dwim_ref(symbolic.buf, symbolic.len, &dummy, &expanded_ref);
+	ret = dwim_ref(symbolic.buf, symbolic.len, &dummy, &expanded_ref, 0);
 	strbuf_release(&symbolic);
 	switch (ret) {
 	case 0: /* Not found, but valid ref */