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/remote.c b/remote.c
index bc46413e6a..b7460bd083 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ static void set_merge(struct branch *ret)
 		    strcmp(ret->remote_name, "."))
 			continue;
 		if (dwim_ref(ret->merge_name[i], strlen(ret->merge_name[i]),
-			     &oid, &ref) == 1)
+			     &oid, &ref, 0) == 1)
 			ret->merge[i]->dst = ref;
 		else
 			ret->merge[i]->dst = xstrdup(ret->merge_name[i]);