[PATCH] setup/rev-parse: allow HEAD to be spelled 'head'

From

Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>

Date

Oct 5, 2007, 03:09 UTC

Message-ID

<1191553750-25562-1-git-send-email-sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>

Suggested-by: Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
---
  This should probably help people putting their git repos on
  FAT USB sticks.

 refs.c  |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 setup.c |    7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 09a2c87..89ffb15 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -400,10 +400,30 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int *
 				}
 				list = list->next;
 			}
-			if (reading || errno != ENOENT)
-				return NULL;
-			hashclr(sha1);
-			return ref;
+			if (reading || errno != ENOENT) {
+				/*
+				 * Hack for FAT-mangled ref filenames
+				 */
+				if (strlen(ref) <= 8) {
+					char lc_name[9];
+					char* i;
+					strncpy(&lc_name, ref, 9);
+					for (i = lc_name; *i; i++) {
+						*i = tolower(*i);
+					}
+					path = git_path("%s", lc_name);
+					if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) {
+						return NULL;
+					}
+				}
+				else {
+					return NULL;
+				}
+			}
+			else {
+				hashclr(sha1);
+				return ref;
+			}
 		}
 
 		/* Follow "normalized" - ie "refs/.." symlinks by hand */
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 06004f1..284d7b9 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -168,8 +168,11 @@ static int is_git_directory(const char *suspect)
 		return 0;
 
 	strcpy(path + len, "/HEAD");
-	if (validate_headref(path))
-		return 0;
+	if (validate_headref(path)) {
+		strcpy(path + len, "/head");
+		if (validate_headref(path))
+			return 0;
+	}
 
 	return 1;
 }

-- 
1.5.3.2.3.g2f2dcc-dirty