From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:44:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Silence stderr in parse_commit*() subroutines
Message-ID: <7vmx8mfu8k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201202111402.31684.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Anyway, here is the patch that should fix those "CGI: fatal: Not a valid
> object name HEAD" errors for you.

I have to wonder if it is simpler and less error prone to check HEAD
before doing anything else immediately after which repository is being
consulted, and give the same "no history at all yet in this project" page
for most if not all operations, instead of patching things up at this deep
in the callchain.