# [PATCH 1/2] git-pull: Avoid merge-base on detached head

1 messages from 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-22. Participants: Phil Hord.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31909

## Phil Hord, 2012-10-22 22:50

Subject: [PATCH 1/2] git-pull: Avoid merge-base on detached head
Message-ID: <1350946204-26399-1-git-send-email-hordp@cisco.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1350946204-26399-1-git-send-email-hordp%40cisco.com

```
git pull --rebase does some clever tricks to find the base
for $upstream , but it forgets that we may not have any
branch at all.  When this happens, git merge-base reports its
"usage" help in the middle of an otherwise successful
rebase operation, because git-merge is called with one too
few parameters.

Since we do not need the merge-base trick in the case of a
detached HEAD, detect this condition and bypass the clever
trick and the usage noise.
---
 git-pull.sh | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh
index 2a10047..266e682 100755
--- a/git-pull.sh
+++ b/git-pull.sh
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ test true = "$rebase" && {
 		require_clean_work_tree "pull with rebase" "Please commit or stash them."
 	fi
 	oldremoteref= &&
+	test -n "$curr_branch" &&
 	. git-parse-remote &&
 	remoteref="$(get_remote_merge_branch "$@" 2>/dev/null)" &&
 	oldremoteref="$(git rev-parse -q --verify "$remoteref")" &&
-- 
1.8.0.2.ge1a3bdd

```