dwim_ref: fix dangling symref warning

If we encounter a symref that is dangling, in most cases we will warn
about it. The one exception is a dangling HEAD, as that indicates a
branch yet to be born.

However, the check in dwim_ref was not quite right. If we were fed
something like "HEAD^0" we would try to resolve "HEAD", see that it is
dangling, and then check whether the _original_ string we got was
"HEAD" (which it wasn't in this case). And that makes no sense; the
dangling thing we found was not "HEAD^0" but rather "HEAD".

Fixing this squelches a scary warning from "submodule summary HEAD" (and
consequently "git status" with status.submodulesummary set) in an empty
repo, as the submodule script calls "git rev-parse -q --verify HEAD^0".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 44bb62d270739a232e87c90c05ce89fcc86bc15b..9677afdadb337fd8d4f69307aebe8b0186a4e7c8 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -278,8 +278,7 @@ int dwim_ref(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1, char **ref)
                                *ref = xstrdup(r);
                        if (!warn_ambiguous_refs)
                                break;
-               } else if ((flag & REF_ISSYMREF) &&
-                          (len != 4 || strcmp(str, "HEAD")))
+               } else if ((flag & REF_ISSYMREF) && strcmp(fullref, "HEAD"))
                        warning("ignoring dangling symref %s.", fullref);
        }
        free(last_branch);