Squelch overzealous "ignoring dangling symref" in an empty repository

057e713 (Warn use of "origin" when remotes/origin/HEAD is dangling,
2009-02-08) tried to warn dangling refs/remotes/origin/HEAD only when
"origin" was used to refer to it.  There was one corner case a symref is
expected to be dangling and this warning is unwarranted: HEAD in an empty
repository.

This squelches the warning for this special case.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 3bd2ef0e7cde84d9d425f510bb2c2d52e8b19e16..2f75179f4c6c1d05bdd7594b23dcf77007c26751 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ 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)
+               } else if ((flag & REF_ISSYMREF) &&
+                          (len != 4 || strcmp(str, "HEAD")))
                        warning("ignoring dangling symref %s.", fullref);
        }
        free(last_branch);