Fix git-fetch while on detached HEAD not to give needlessly alarming errors

When we are on a detached HEAD, there is no current branch.
There is no reason to leak the error messages to the end user
since this is a situation we expect to see.

This adds -q option to git-symbolic-ref to exit without issuing
an error message if the given name is not a symbolic ref.

By the way, with or without this patch, there currently is no
good way to tell failure modes between "git symbolic-ref HAED"
and "git symbolic-ref HEAD".  Both says "is not a symbolic ref".

We may want to do something about it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
index d8be0527f..227c9d4a6 100644
--- a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
+++ b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 #include "refs.h"
 
 static const char git_symbolic_ref_usage[] =
-"git-symbolic-ref name [ref]";
+"git-symbolic-ref [-q] name [ref]";
 
-static void check_symref(const char *HEAD)
+static void check_symref(const char *HEAD, int quiet)
 {
 	unsigned char sha1[20];
 	int flag;
@@ -13,17 +13,41 @@ static void check_symref(const char *HEAD)
 
 	if (!refs_heads_master)
 		die("No such ref: %s", HEAD);
-	else if (!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF))
-		die("ref %s is not a symbolic ref", HEAD);
+	else if (!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF)) {
+		if (!quiet)
+			die("ref %s is not a symbolic ref", HEAD);
+		else
+			exit(1);
+	}
 	puts(refs_heads_master);
 }
 
 int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
+	int quiet = 0;
+
 	git_config(git_default_config);
+
+	while (1 < argc) {
+		const char *arg = argv[1];
+		if (arg[0] != '-')
+			break;
+		else if (!strcmp("-q", arg))
+			quiet = 1;
+		else if (!strcmp("--", arg)) {
+			argc--;
+			argv++;
+			break;
+		}
+		else
+			die("unknown option %s", arg);
+		argc--;
+		argv++;
+	}
+
 	switch (argc) {
 	case 2:
-		check_symref(argv[1]);
+		check_symref(argv[1], quiet);
 		break;
 	case 3:
 		create_symref(argv[1], argv[2]);