Merge branch 'master' into lj/refs

* master: (72 commits)
  runstatus: do not recurse into subdirectories if not needed
  grep: fix --fixed-strings combined with expression.
  grep: free expressions and patterns when done.
  Corrected copy-and-paste thinko in ignore executable bit test case.
  An illustration of rev-list --parents --pretty=raw
  Allow git-checkout when on a non-existant branch.
  gitweb: Decode long title for link tooltips
  git-svn: Fix fetch --no-ignore-externals with GIT_SVN_NO_LIB=1
  Ignore executable bit when adding files if filemode=0.
  Remove empty ref directories that prevent creating a ref.
  Use const for interpolate arguments
  git-archive: update documentation
  Deprecate merge-recursive.py
  gitweb: fix over-eager application of esc_html().
  Allow '(no author)' in git-svn's authors file.
  Allow 'svn fetch' on '(no date)' revisions in Subversion.
  git-repack: allow git-repack to run in subdirectory
  Remove upload-tar and make git-tar-tree a thin wrapper to git-archive
  git-tar-tree: Move code for git-archive --format=tar to archive-tar.c
  git-tar-tree: Remove duplicate git_config() call
  ...

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index f03620b05..119bca1ff 100755
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ USAGE='[-f] [-b <new_branch>] [-m] [<branch>] [<paths>...]'
 SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Sometimes
 . git-sh-setup
 
-old=$(git-rev-parse HEAD)
 old_name=HEAD
+old=$(git-rev-parse --verify $old_name 2>/dev/null)
 new=
 new_name=
 force=
@@ -140,6 +140,13 @@ fi
 	die "git checkout: to checkout the requested commit you need to specify 
               a name for a new branch which is created and switched to"
 
+if [ "X$old" = X ]
+then
+	echo "warning: You do not appear to currently be on a branch." >&2
+	echo "warning: Forcing checkout of $new_name." >&2
+	force=1
+fi
+
 if [ "$force" ]
 then
     git-read-tree --reset -u $new