[PATCH] git-branch -D: make it work even when on a yet-to-be-born branch

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

This makes "git branch -D other_branch" work even when HEAD
points at a yet-to-be-born branch.

Earlier, we checked the HEAD ref for the purpose of "subset"
check even when the deletion was forced (i.e. not -d but -D).
Because of this, you cannot delete a branch even with -D while
on a yet-to-be-born branch.

With this change, the following sequence that now works:

	mkdir newdir && cd newdir
	git init-db
	git fetch -k $other_repo refs/heads/master:refs/heads/othre
	# oops, typo
	git branch other othre
	git branch -D othre

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---

  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

  > When forcing a deletion, we do not care about ancestry relation
  > between the HEAD and the branch being deleted, so we should not
  > even bother checking if HEAD is already valid.  The original
  > code before your patch shares the same problem.

  And here is a fix for that.  This is on top of your -v change
  which I've applied.

 builtin-branch.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-branch.c b/builtin-branch.c
index 69b7b55..3d5cb0e 100644
--- a/builtin-branch.c
+++ b/builtin-branch.c
@@ -38,12 +38,16 @@ static int in_merge_bases(const unsigned char *sha1,
 
 static void delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force)
 {
-	struct commit *rev, *head_rev;
+	struct commit *rev, *head_rev = head_rev;
 	unsigned char sha1[20];
 	char *name;
 	int i;
 
-	head_rev = lookup_commit_reference(head_sha1);
+	if (!force) {
+		head_rev = lookup_commit_reference(head_sha1);
+		if (!head_rev)
+			die("Couldn't look up commit object for HEAD");
+	}
 	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
 		if (!strcmp(head, argv[i]))
 			die("Cannot delete the branch you are currently on.");
@@ -53,8 +57,8 @@ static void delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force)
 			die("Branch '%s' not found.", argv[i]);
 
 		rev = lookup_commit_reference(sha1);
-		if (!rev || !head_rev)
-			die("Couldn't look up commit objects.");
+		if (!rev)
+			die("Couldn't look up commit object for '%s'", name);
 
 		/* This checks whether the merge bases of branch and
 		 * HEAD contains branch -- which means that the HEAD
-- 
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