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Wed, 20 May 2026 13:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from markl5i.lan ([2600:4040:264b:4100:d17e:f99:a560:8cad]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 6a1803df08f44-8ca361905d4sm129891136d6.32.2026.05.20.13.24.38 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 20 May 2026 13:24:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Levedahl To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: j6t@kdbg.org, egg_mushroomcow@foxmail.com, bootaina702@gmail.com, Mark Levedahl Subject: [PATCH v2 08/11] git-gui: use HEAD as current branch when detached (bug fix) Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 16:24:07 -0400 Message-ID: <20260520202411.108764-9-mlevedahl@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.54.0.99.14 In-Reply-To: <20260520202411.108764-1-mlevedahl@gmail.com> References: <20260514143322.865587-1-mlevedahl@gmail.com> <20260520202411.108764-1-mlevedahl@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit commit f87a36b697 ("git-gui: use git-branch --show-current", 2024-02-12) changed git-gui to use git-branch to access refs, rather than directly reading files as doing the latter is not compatible with the reftable backend. git branch --show-current reports an empty branch name when the head is detached, and in this case load_current_branch needs to report HEAD using special case logic as it did prior to the above commit. Make it do so. This addresses an issue with git-gui browser failing with a detached head. Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl --- git-gui.sh | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh index aeb7ed3548..a72d8a59ec 100755 --- a/git-gui.sh +++ b/git-gui.sh @@ -648,6 +648,9 @@ proc load_current_branch {} { set current_branch [git branch --show-current] set is_detached [expr [string length $current_branch] == 0] + if {$is_detached} { + set current_branch {HEAD} + } } auto_load tk_optionMenu -- 2.54.0.99.14