From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:13:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: rebasing can also be done when HEAD is detached
Message-ID: <xmqq60a3xdpw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171121152533.3793-1-kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>

Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> writes:

> In a repository when attempting to rebase when the HEAD is detached
> and it is already up to date with upstream (so there's nothing to do),
> the following message is shown
>
>         Current branch HEAD is up to date.
>
> which is clearly wrong as HEAD is not a branch.
>
> Handle the special case of HEAD correctly to give a more precise
> error message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
> ---
>  In this patch, I basically assumed that there would be no
>  branch named "HEAD".

Perhaps time to learn "git symbolic-ref HEAD" and use it instead of
depending on the name?