Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] sequencer: treat error reading HEAD as unborn branch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2024, 22:25 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqil1rjdf7.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <17bbe214bab8dc40.70b1dd9aae081c6e.203dcd72f6563036@zivdesk>

"Brian Lyles" <brianmlyles@gmail.com> writes:

> If I'm understanding you correctly, it sounds like you're hinting at
> something like this:

You may also want to add _READING (I do not know offhand). Also you'd want to make sure resolve_ref_unsafe() returned a plausible looking refname (i.e. passes starts_with("refs/heads/").

But other than that, yeah, doing these as "extra checks" only after we see the primary resolve_ref("HEAD") fails was what I had in mind.

Thanks.

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